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This is the 3rd time I've decided to go to a chiropractor in hopes of having a discomfort fixed. It seems that I always have high hopes when deciding to go to the chiropractor, but afterwards... I begin to feel that I get no real benefit from the sessions.
On the one hand, I do believe that a misaligned spine can cause much pain and discomfort. And I am often able to relieve my own minor discomforts by twisting and stretching my back, whereby my vertebrae *snap* back into place. (this is such a natural thing for me to do, yet I rarely see or hear anyone else doing it... but that's a different subject). It's when I'm not able to do so on my own, that I start thinking that a chiropractor could help.
But after going to the chiropractor, and having my problem area "adjusted", it really doesn't seem to have much effect (unlike when I snap my own back). The chiropractor tells me to wait a few days to see if it feels better, and if not, to come back in a week. This leaves me feeling like my ailment really isn't something that the chiropractor can fix, and that he's just doing something (the "adjustment") to make me BELIEVE that I am being helped, while hoping that my problem will heal itself in the meantime, the same as it would have done on its own.
Is it possible that simply believing that my problem was being helped, would make it heal quicker? Is my disbelief working against me?
Perhaps no medicine or treatment works, without the patient having belief in it.
On the one hand, I do believe that a misaligned spine can cause much pain and discomfort. And I am often able to relieve my own minor discomforts by twisting and stretching my back, whereby my vertebrae *snap* back into place. (this is such a natural thing for me to do, yet I rarely see or hear anyone else doing it... but that's a different subject). It's when I'm not able to do so on my own, that I start thinking that a chiropractor could help.
But after going to the chiropractor, and having my problem area "adjusted", it really doesn't seem to have much effect (unlike when I snap my own back). The chiropractor tells me to wait a few days to see if it feels better, and if not, to come back in a week. This leaves me feeling like my ailment really isn't something that the chiropractor can fix, and that he's just doing something (the "adjustment") to make me BELIEVE that I am being helped, while hoping that my problem will heal itself in the meantime, the same as it would have done on its own.
Is it possible that simply believing that my problem was being helped, would make it heal quicker? Is my disbelief working against me?
Perhaps no medicine or treatment works, without the patient having belief in it.