Proactive medicine
“If you’d like to go to room 4, strip off and lay face down on the table. He will be with you shortly” she said. Right! Now normally I would question this but as I’m at the Chiropractor you sort of take this as the norm and get on with it. Although I did keep one eye on the door at all times to make sure who was entering the room and I kept my strides on.
So there I am laying face down on the table which looks like something out of a Star Wars movie and has more gadgets and attachments than James Bond’s car. ”If you’d like to breathe in and now breathe out”, crack my spine is snapped back into place. Vision’s of Jacob Singer in Jacob’s Ladder run amock in my mind as the Chiropractor snaps more vertabrae back into place. Whilst he’s snapping and cracking he’s “hmmm” and “arrring” and throwing in phrases like “hmmm we’ll have to try it a different way as that didn’t quite work!”.
Didn’t quite work? Look fella this is my spine you’re manupulating, whilst I appreciate you’ve done 6 years of training and you’re an expert in your job, I need a little more confidence that “didn’t quite work”.
This is all about taking care of my spine so that in years to come it doesn’t lock out and I’m left resembling a Quasimodo. It’s what I like to call proactive medicine. It’s something that I did like to see more of at my doctors. Rather than waiting till I have a problem, why not get me in for a full work up and see if there’s something on the horizon that you can treat more easily before it takes hold. Perhaps if our Government and NHS Managers hadn’t run it into financial oblivion then this might be on offer.
Anyways, I digress, my thanks go to Auntie’s friend P the Reflexologist who suggest that I should see someone to see if my pelvis was out of line and causing the pain in my foot