JoonKimDDS
19-08-2007, 06:43 AM
Hi guys, I am 22 years old and live in VA state in USA.
I was doing a calf raise exercise in GYM. I put weight on my shoulder and move my ankle up and down and that’s what the calf raise is.
Anyway I felt extreme pain while I was doing the calf raise.
I thought that it was just muscle soreness because I had it many times.
I have been weight training for more than 4 years by the way.
I have been taking a break for 1 month at home but I didn’t see any improvement.
I went to acupuncturist for 13 times but it still didn’t work.
After 2 months since the injury, I finally went to Chiropractor and took x-ray.
He told me that my symptom was “Spondylolisthesis”.
I looked up online and it says that depends on how serious the slip of the vertebrae it is graded between 1 to 4.
I am not quite sure how serious my symptom is but when I looked at the x-ray, I think it was between 10~30%. I assume it’s either grade 1 or 2. Maybe I will ask my Chiropractor next time I visit him. He told me that #4 slipped a little bit and #5 slipped even more but I still think it’s between 10~30% when I compared it to the other backbones.
Enough with my introduction.
Anyway I don’t have medical insurance and have to pay $50 each time I visit Chiropractor. I already spent over $400 for acupuncture and don’t know how much I have to spend more to chiropractor. I already visited chiropractor twice but all he does is using massage machine that I already have in my room and twisting my body to make cracking sound but that’s all and he receives $50. I don’t think it worth my $50.
He told me to stop lifting heavy weight that will make my vertebrae even worse. I still go to gym but I limit the weight that I lift and try machine instead of free weights for my safety. I also did a lot of research and narrowed down to the conclusion that strengthening my abs, back, hip, thigh, and leg can minimize the back pain.
I am doing my best to follow these exercises but don’t know if I want to spend 30 min at chiropractor’s office and spend $50. I read that some people chose to go meet physiotherapy instead of chiropractor. Do you think I should stop visiting chiropractor and go meet physiotherapy? What different method can physiotherapy use that chiropractor doesn’t? and does it worth your money or should I just keep on doing exercise that I was told from google search?
I was doing a calf raise exercise in GYM. I put weight on my shoulder and move my ankle up and down and that’s what the calf raise is.
Anyway I felt extreme pain while I was doing the calf raise.
I thought that it was just muscle soreness because I had it many times.
I have been weight training for more than 4 years by the way.
I have been taking a break for 1 month at home but I didn’t see any improvement.
I went to acupuncturist for 13 times but it still didn’t work.
After 2 months since the injury, I finally went to Chiropractor and took x-ray.
He told me that my symptom was “Spondylolisthesis”.
I looked up online and it says that depends on how serious the slip of the vertebrae it is graded between 1 to 4.
I am not quite sure how serious my symptom is but when I looked at the x-ray, I think it was between 10~30%. I assume it’s either grade 1 or 2. Maybe I will ask my Chiropractor next time I visit him. He told me that #4 slipped a little bit and #5 slipped even more but I still think it’s between 10~30% when I compared it to the other backbones.
Enough with my introduction.
Anyway I don’t have medical insurance and have to pay $50 each time I visit Chiropractor. I already spent over $400 for acupuncture and don’t know how much I have to spend more to chiropractor. I already visited chiropractor twice but all he does is using massage machine that I already have in my room and twisting my body to make cracking sound but that’s all and he receives $50. I don’t think it worth my $50.
He told me to stop lifting heavy weight that will make my vertebrae even worse. I still go to gym but I limit the weight that I lift and try machine instead of free weights for my safety. I also did a lot of research and narrowed down to the conclusion that strengthening my abs, back, hip, thigh, and leg can minimize the back pain.
I am doing my best to follow these exercises but don’t know if I want to spend 30 min at chiropractor’s office and spend $50. I read that some people chose to go meet physiotherapy instead of chiropractor. Do you think I should stop visiting chiropractor and go meet physiotherapy? What different method can physiotherapy use that chiropractor doesn’t? and does it worth your money or should I just keep on doing exercise that I was told from google search?