Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama View Post
Just my experience with chiro - he made it much worse. I don't think neck manipulation is a good idea with bulging discs. My spine doc agreed. Massage, OTOH, is great, especially trigger point therapy.
Thanks for mentioning this. I had considered seeing a chiro until I learned about the bulging disks. Just the nature of what they are made me think it wouldn't be a good idea. I would think that if an adjustment was a good idea that my doctor would have done so - he is an Osteopath, not an MD.

The massage was wonderful and not as painful as I expected. He did massage my neck very lightly, and that did hurt...but he stopped.

I've had a LOT more headaches since all of this developed and can't help but think it is from my neck injury. I almost never get headaches...though it could well be from the muscle tension. I am even waking up with them. Not too bad though, and they do seem to be easing a bit. Either that or I am getting used to them.