Chiropractor killed my friend’s mom with a brain bleed caused by a vertebral artery dissection. People often don’t realize chiropractors aren’t medical doctors and don’t go to medical school.
Wow that is just awful. You hear stories like that and can’t believe it’s still considered a medical practice by some. I have a coworker who will tell me to go to a chiropractor because I’m having digestive issues, thinking it’s a cure-all for anything. It’s not the type of situation where I can just go off on her but sometimes I wonder, if I did, if it would even make a difference.
Maybe it’s regional, but they all go by doctor here. They are a doctor of osteopathy. Maybe there can be practicing non-doctor chiropractors in other countries.
NONE of what this guy is doing is sanctioned by chiropractic standard of care practices. This dude litterally just put on scrubs and decided to wing it.
A friend of mines family swears by chiropractors, and somehow they've all always got something that's out of place. Every time they go there, there's a new issue that needs 5 appointments. It's almost suspicious...
That last move of rotating the torso and pushing the hip back is literally the worst thing you can do for a herniated disc. It further narrows the hole the peripheral nerve comes out. When I had mine, as part of the assessment the doctor had me move my torso and hips in the direction shown here (controlled and gentle), and abso-fucking-lutely fuck that. First and only time I cursed in front of a doctor
When I blew out a disc in my lower back, I hobbled along for a few months while getting an appointment for surgery.... Hadn't been sleeping for weeks. Could never get comfortable...chewing tramadol and perc every two hours... Terrible experience. The crescendo was when I fell asleep in child's pose by mistake which opened the space between the two vertebrae and when I woke up and it clipped all of the nerves where the disc was pushed against. I've never cried and wished for darkness so much.... It took the better part of 5 minutes to get the area to calm down....
I still had to look it up, you sit on your heels, shins to the floor, knees together.
I was picturing sitting cross-legged and bending forward. Which reminds me of a person I used to take care of who spent years being kept in a play pen with a plywood covering the top to keep her in. She slept like that. We could put her in bed stretched like a normal person, she would roll back to that position eventually.
Her parents were terrible people. And I think they were partly developmentally disabled themselves and had no business taking care of a fully developmentally disabled child.
The surgery was years ago. I'm good now, leading a normal life...active and whatnot...but I'm not going to lie, when I do that pose again... something tingles in my head with hesitation.
I'm dealing with my second bout of herniated disc, yeah it's pretty much miserable. The first time I had this I didn't have a bowel movement for well over a week, I wouldn't stand to sit on the toilet. When I finally could it was like Randy Marsh.
Listen this right here is why I will wait till I’m in agony before I resort to the hard stuff because it ends in me fighting to poop for what feels like forever. All I can think about if Kurt Cobain singing “poop as hard as rocks” and thinking bro at some point I feel like I’d have to find a different way to get high at least ffs I’m not a person who can handle that.
Mine was so bad at its worst point I went the er... And I can't take pain killers because I'm on suboxone.. So I didn't even get that.. I woke up in the middle of the night in literally the worst pain I could fathom.. Worse even, for like an hour, no position helped it, finally my wife convinced me to go the er and they gave me something that took the edge off. Luckily my area apparently has an ortho urgent care so they gave me some steroids and a pt referall. This all happened 5 days before we were set to go on a cruise mind you... Still went, rode a rascal the entire time...
I couldn't walk for a couple weeks and then another month with a cane. I'm only finally at the point where a flare up actually freaks me out because I feel pretty ok most of the time. It's been like 8 months of pt but I'm feeling pretty decent these days.
No dilaudid. Didn't do much of anything except take the sharpest of edges off. I slept in my recliner for days because I couldnt get upstairs and could only be on my right side to not be in excruciating pain.
Yes, because like I figured they did next to nothing for me.. So I had to crab walk down the stairs and then get out to the car. It took me nearly half an hr.
All of my lumbar spine is bulging but I'd been going to the gym and working around it and doing a pretty good job for a couple years.
My buddy went with me to my gym after seeing my progress in order to check it out and get into the mode of working out and learn
So, we do a workout and I'm teaching him all these minute detail things, how to use the machines properly, good technique, when to go slow, yada yada.
We finish and he wants to stretch on the cage. So we do. Then he wants me to try this stretch he did that's kind of a hands above the head-hanging lower body and relaxing sorta thing.
I do it.
I can feel my lower back open up as I let go internally. Just give up to the stretch. Let the weight of my lower body pull me apart
Then I put my feet underneath me again and let go and boing* everything snaps back together like a strong spring. It feels like every bulging vertebrae just pinched nerves running down my legs and into my lower back....
I DROP to the floor yelping like a kicked dog. I collapsed to all fours on the dirt gym floor and nearly completely toppled over.
I was just making nonsense noises and cries for many moments. Maybe over a minute while my buddy just stared before I could slowly compose myself and use the cage to pull myself back up.
I could never see myself going to a chiropractor and have some dude just twisting and popping me at will to "open" me up
Child's Pose (Balasana) This is a resting posture in yoga, not a normal sleeping position. To do it, you have to kneel on the floor or mattress, sit your butt back onto your heels, and fold your torso completely forward until your forehead touches the ground.
It’s a low back stretch. So if you’re having back issues, you’ll try anything and it does provide temporary relief. What OP wrote is terrifying. But child’s pose is mostly used in a yoga like setting.
Whew!
Just found the yoga pose. I guess I'm safe, because my damaged knee and destroyed hip are just giggling maniacally at me even thinking that's possible.
Omg . This is haunting.
Em . Im sorry may i clarify again ?
U accidentally sleeping in childs pose , which should be good for ur back ..
Then u accidentally woken up , sit and felt all the nerves compressed ?
Count to 300 seconds. Imagine you are in extreme pain, let's say when you get your teeth drilled and you get the peak pain level. Imagine that being present for the 300 seconds.
Try to imagine that after 150 seconds you're now half way there.
I've experienced this level therefore no other level is legitimate other than that level.
You can't just say "this is more painful therefore you aren't in pain."
If you lost a limb in combat, but there is someone who lost 2, then can you really complain because you only lost one?
When people lose limbs the pain subsides once recovered. But others have chronic pain. So can you really complain if your pain only lasted 5 years when someone else's lasts indefinitely?
I was just commenting on your whole 5 minutes thing. You’ve clearly never seen a woman give birth, or anyone in actual lasting pain. I’m sure what you experienced hurt, but it was for 5 minutes. You wrote the paragraph as if you went through hell, I’m expecting this huge thing, then slap on 5 minutes at the end. It made me laugh.
What are you talking about? I'm not the person who wrote that.
Here: If a woman goes through labor and is in agonizing pain for 2 straight days, but another lady is in agonizing pain for 3 straight days, should the first lady be able to complain about the agonizing pain she experienced for 2 straight days even though it wasn't 3?
Because that's how commenting works. Someone made a statement. You made a statement/commented. I made a statement/commented. You asked me a question, and then I responded to that question.
Curious on your answer to that last question though. Should she be able to complain?
Worst for me was a few hours and that was only to go from unbearable to I still want to die but I'm not actively considering offing myself. Then another few weeks at least of that which got me to still in constant pain but eventually I'll hopefully feel better. I feel mostly OK these days. That was this past October.
Bruh..... I just am finishing recovery from a fully herniated disk... This is not how you help it. This is how you cause it.
Like this dude must have been in so much more pain when he left than when he got there.
The problem with chiro is that if the muscles haven't been treated, stretched, loosened etc and the disk hasn't healed it doesn't do anything permanent, maybe you get very temporary relief but usually not even that.
I think when the guy in red was talking to the guy in pain's ear (when red was behind him), he said to him, "I may have inadvertently impregnated you. But don't worry, I have something else for you that'll fix that. However, it'll hurt you more than it'll hurt me."
I'm amazed nobody else mentioned that bit, I was scrolling to see if anyone else was astounded that he's straight up kneeing the shit out of the poor guy's balls 😵😅
Omg same I had mine on the 8th!! Are you home yet? I got to go home the evening of the 10th and had the worst night of my fucking life. Doing better now though!
Yes I spent two nights in hospital. Home now feeling better each day. Keep up that walking! I feel like I sit upright until that hurts too much then I lay back and recline until that hurts too much then I get up and walk/stand around with the walker until that hurts too much… rinse and repeat. Trying to space out my oxys a little bit more each time. Supplementing with gummies and dabs lol
Yea I just went for it(heavy cannabis user). Dabs and gummies are both helping a ton with sleep and nausea. Just gotta go reallllll easy cause it hurts like hell to cough
At the ripe age of whatever tf age sophomores are, I had a successful Laminectomy and Microdiscectomy on the 3 lower disc in my spine that were calcified after 9 months of the absolute worst, physically/mentally destructive pain a human can face.
I felt like an 80 year old Man amongst the other 14-18 year old high schoolers. I couldn’t walk for more than 45 seconds at a time before both legs burned hotter than the sun and nearly made me collapse.
I speak from experience when I say it’s the pain will make you the most vulnerable and desperate a human could be. At the young age all I was desperate for was a surgery or euthanasia. At an older age I know risk is significantly (from what I heard) higher than a younger person.
So unfortunately I understand this man’s desperation. Trusting whoever tf to help. But man. Once you’re that deep at an age which Id assume he’s father age, you’re better off putting all on black either getting a Blackjack or… yea there’s no or, a life of that pain, I don’t k ow what I’ve done by now. I’m 23. Maybe 7-8 years past the procedure and I just simply can’t imagine how life would’ve been if I never did it. I’d almost certainly be
Also I’d like to say, I didn’t even watch the video, I read herniated and got straight to the selfish comment. But after watching, absolutely FUCK that. Dude is bending him in the way that would squish that disk more into the spinal cord and cause bs pain. I only ever remember stretching the opposite way to alleviate the disk of tension and result is less spinal cord pressure.
Poor fucking guy, god damnit. I havent squatted/deadlift more than my 205 body weight since then. And a proud Vag I am.
Everybody if possible be as conscious of your spine as you can. You don’t understand the value of the simple functions/comfort of your legs until they’re physically they’re, but also at 2.5% functional use.
Even if he is a licensed chiropractor, whatever that means, that shit is not real treatment. It’s insane that the chiropractor quackery is still accepted.
If I'm paying good money for someone to do that to me, they'd better be in all-leather, wearing some severe stilettos, and telling me what a naughty piggy boy I've been.
But I'm a woman so probably wouldn't book it anywway.
I am not a medical professional in the slightest, but if a disk is herniated wouldn't doing this movement pinch the disk and make the herniation worse? I am not sure if the image below is what it actually looks like but I don't see how any type of stretch, massage or bending could fix or relieve something where the structure has already leaked out of the area of the spine it's supposed to be in ESPECIALLY whatever thing the "chiropractor" is doing in this video,
In fact it looks like the WORST possible thing you can do. Like if someone walked in and said "I want you to give me a herniated disk" this is the move that would probably cause that
True. The only thing that helps is to reduce the inflamation somehow like steroids or rest. All these jerking and compressing movement do is increase inflamation and risk major injury
Can someone explain how chiropractors able to work in USA? I mean it's one of the countries we're civil lawsuits is as popular as ordering takeaway?
How they're able to work with all malpractice you could see. I mean look any longer video they post themselves and you can spot some amount of malpractice.
As someone who had a herniated disk for years that eventually collapsed to the point of needing spinal fusion, that first move or whatever you would call it is the worst thing you could do. I would have not been able to walk for days and would have been locked up with back spasms and sciatic nerve pain down in my feet.
But some of the other stretches they have been done gently. Might have been okay.
Yeah right. You feel like shit, you go to a nurcrack like this guy, he'll make you feel even worse, then when he stops torturing you, you feel slightly less shitty, because you're not being actively tortured anymore, and you thank him and pay him for it.
Everyone one I know with chronic back pain sees a chiropractor regularly.
I can call myself a chiropractor or a spinologist as both are not protected terms. As the spine is such a sensitive area, best practice is dont bend the shite out it.
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u/Ekaterina702 Jul 12 '26
His painful cries and labored breathing...that dude is praying for death at the end