Most people believe they have an idea of what going to the chiropractor is like. They find that once they’ve had a session, it’s nothing like what they were expecting.

In general, going to the chiropractor is pretty much like going to any other doctor’s office. You go in, fill out a lot of paperwork, which includes medical history, and then wait until you’re called.

When you finally get to see the doctor, you first spend time talking about your issues. In my case, I had a back problem that had been plaguing me for many years. I’d had ups and downs with my pain, but it had never really gotten much better, as I had never seen a doctor for the pain before. We talked about my apprehension to taking pain pills, my general lack of exercise, and my general health outside of my back.

Then the doctor had me get up on a table and lay down on my stomach. I didn’t have to remove any clothing, which immediately made me feel comfortable. Then he started probing certain areas of the back of my body, starting with my back. It wasn’t what I was thinking it would be, which was that it would feel like massage of some sort. I’d had massages for my back pain, and those helped my pain, but only for a short period of time.

Instead, it was more probing, pushing here and there on my back and my legs. At some point, he said to relax, and the next thing I knew, he was pushing on my back hard and fast, and I heard a snap. That scared me, but I didn’t feel pain. However, I have to admit that now I was alert and prepared for it happening again.

The reason chiropractors do that is because they can tell where blood flow isn’t happening properly, and its blood flow that helps bring healing nutrients to damaged areas. He also told me that one of my legs was a little longer than the other leg, and thought it might have been related to an injury I’d suffered about 12 years previous, when I had exacerbated back pain that I already suffered for another reason.

Every other time he tried to push on my back during that session, he had to do twice, because I’m a big guy, bigger than he was, and my guard was up. However, I did relax and let him do it each time after I blocked it. When the session was done, I didn’t feel as though I’d been healed. As a matter of fact, my back hurt a bit. He said that over the course of the next couple of days it would start feeling much better as the blood flow had a chance to get into that area. Turns out he was right, and I did start feeling better.

We had ten sessions with each other, and by the last session, my back was feeling much better. He had also given me a set of stretching exercises, which he said would help me regain some flexibility that, thus, would help my back to continue feeling better.

It’s probably with this greater understanding of what chiropractic care really is, that insurance companies are starting to cover it as a viable treatment option. Once you get used to having your bones cracked, it’s not a bad feeling. And you’ll feel better in the long run.

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