Quote Originally Posted by Natural Beauty View Post
Chiropractors seem like most Doctors. You get a good one and you can be set for life…or as long as they are in practice. You get a bad one….Agh!

I just realized I’ve been seeing my current Chiropractor for over 7 years. He got me through 3 pregnancies with flying colors and helps keep my asthma at bay. I go for tune-ups when I remember or start coughing like a seal.

Self adjusting makes me a little nervous. It is a fine line between adjusting vertebrae in the neck and causing oneself to stroke out. I always wait for those guys who crack their necks to turn purple or something. Yikes.
Only an extremely irresponsible chiro would teach someone to do high velocity mobs on themselves!!!

If you have a chiro like that, RUN AWAY!!!!

Safe self-adjustment involves using simple "normal" stretches and gentle muscle energy techniques. MET is things like: barely squeezing a pillow gently between your knees while lying on your back to correct an SI joint problem. MET is often done in repetitions of 10, because you are using the firing of the muscles to gently and incrementally restore the alignment of the boo-boo joint. So, what the chiro does in one harsh *SNAP* to completely replace a critter; you do in many slow gentle squeezes to move a tiny bit at a time until it's back where it belongs.

If your chiro is teaching you to snap yourself, please report him/her to the American Chiropractic Association. http://www.amerchiro.org/