I actually agree with you lol. It helped a lot with my ankle sprain, but not so much for my low back injury before. I really just love the feeling of cracking all joints that are hard to reach by yourself. Good point on the last paragraph too.
By what limited info I know, there also seems to be two schools of thought in the chiro world. One is a purely musculoskeletal approah, while the other is the whole aligning your spine will fix all your health problems camp. Definitely not a fan of the latter.
Just an observation though. A lot of high level athletes (like UFC for example) are recently more and more working with chiropractors. Makes you kinda think maybe they’re on to something.
And lastly, for what it’s worth, I have a friend who’s completed orthopedics fellowship and he did acknowledge that chiros are starting to show mor high quality studies with good results. Coming from a traditional medicine standpoint, that was interesting to hear.
Sorry to hear about the back. I know you have a history of back pain, which makes an injury a lot more complicated mentally.
You’re taking good measures already. Don’t underestimate some core work like the McGill big three.
Sounds counterintuitive but what helped me after my last back flare up was really high frequency deadlifts. Starting out super light and with rom progression (because I couldn’t bend down far enough).
FWIW purely musculoskeletal doesn’t sound like quite the full picture either lel. True back pain practitioner have quite a broad knowledge from biomedical model anatomy and physiology to new age pain science and psychosocial/somatic models of health.
They are looking for the extra 0.1% because pro athletes and shit. Plenty of money to throw at everything and see what sticks. Less useful for most people
Should be aight. Just gave me a good scare and was ruminating for a few days until I could test it out and see where things were at today. There are underlying issues that contribute no doubt beyond load management but one thing at a time. For now still in early symptom reducing phases
Not always… last visit to the chiro, I actually had a psoas subluxation, which I would have never figured, from falling, mind you, only on my ass. This resulted in a tilted pelvis and a longer leg, and he put everything in place and bye bye lol
Anyway, hope you’ll recoversoon enough! Also I wonder, why are you pauses so short?
Either there is something lost in translation or you have been scamed my friend. To my knowledge a psoas subluxation is anatomically not possible. A muscle does not subluxate.
The big point of critique with chiros (and other practioners!) is that they come up with bullshit to reel you in and make you dependant. Him telling you that you have a psoas subluxation is a prime example. Not saying that there wasn’t something wrong with your hip or that he didn’t help you. Just saying that one should be careful about all the bs out there. A lot of practioners (physios included) walk on very very thin ice when it comes to scientifical reliability.
Btw. If you had a hip sublaxation, you would absolutely know. One of the most painful injuries there is in humans. Also incredibly loud. Like shockingly painful and loud. Happens sometimes if you use too much ROMprematurely after a hip transplantation.
My buddy started seeing a chiro and likes it but that was after tearing his achilles, doing 6 months of PT, and getting a recommendation by his PT to see a specific one about a long-term back problem. Might be worth it but it wouldn’t be step 1 (or 2) for me either.
I’ve been thinking about moving to Sheiko Gold in a few months, was it worth it for you?
Ran Sheiko Gold for a solid year starting in the last 3 months of my back injury rehab/rebuild. Would recommend
So muscular memory gave me a boost to return to previous performance levels. On top of that put on 20/15/40kg SBD in the remaining months. For better or worse can’t say I ran the program exactly as prescribed lol.
The main benefit for me was learning about the training process, the use of RPE to go hard at the appropriate times and control intensity when required and other training principles. Since the app collected training data and encouraged u to think about training it was a great learning tool for me
Worth noting juggernaut AI has an app now but certainly different styles between the apps.
@whang@Koestrizer@aldebaran Is na a chiro but if the timing works out gonna see a physio probs. My coach/coaching team/gym has an in-house one who specialises in powerlifters.
While load management is a powerful tool, maybe the most powerful, there might be others I can add to the toolkit rehab faster and prevent re flaring up better
Can’t hurt. I get 20% off because I’m getting coaching from the team already. Nice opportunity to train at Melbourne Strength Culture with the boiz as well because it’s a few hours away from me usually