(no subject)

[killing_rose]

Dear Chiropractor:

I <3 you. No, for serious. I've gone from migraines every couple days to maybe once a week. Maybe. That said, I don't particularly have funds and that thing called insurance. So thank you for working out a payment plan.


Dear Body:

It'd be awesome if we could get down to one visit to the chiro a month. As of right now, I can feel the ache building, and I don't have another appointment until Thursday. I think. My brain's the consistency of soup at the moment, and I don't quite remember where I wrote it down.


Dear Ache-That-Signals-Pain:

Good lord, how long have you been building? Are you why I was generally Stereotypically Blonde at work today? Because if you are--and I suspect you are--I am not amused.  Neither is my printer, which had to do three projects over several times.

Also. If you've decided after 10 years to start corresponding to my hormones, I might be a wee bit perturbed. I'm just saying. I noticed the coincidental timing.


Dear Meds:

I don't miss you. I mean, I miss abortives a little bit, but not noticeably enough to think that you were doing as much good as my doctor swore you were.

Comments

[syntaxofthings]

While chiropractic can release the tense muscles and improve alignment, retraining the muscles to proper posture is vital to maintaining that alignment. (It'll also make you have to go to the chiropractor less.)

Agreed. I do pilates a couple of times a week and it makes me feel amazing, but I don't think it alone is doing all I need to take care of myself.

[feuervogel]

My physical therapist fixed things I didn't even know were wrong with me. I'd been doing pilates for a year or so before I started PT, and that wasn't helping with my posture. (General fitness, yes.) PT gives you weird postures to hold that isolate certain muscles to balance them. It's increased the effect of pilates -- in no small part because I'd been using overdeveloped accessory muscles, like the quadricep instead of the inner thigh -- and made a lot of my pain go away. (I got the referral for chronic low back and hip pain.)