Hip Pain Chiropractor - Told To Have Hip Surgery -Walked Without Cane - 1st Chiropractic Visit

Hello I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg. I'm a chiropractor in Cumming, Georgia and I

have patient here Bradford Edge and we just like to talk to you for a few

minutes we'd like to ask him some questions just for other people to see

what chiropractic can do that it's not just about back pain so this is Bradford

thank you very much do you want to just tell us in your own words what you had going

on what you had tried before you came here and and what you noticed when you

when we started working on you sure I have avascular necrosis which is a

degeneratinging of the bone I got an injury in the military we really did not

find out how I received his injury I went through two surgeries a

decompression surgery done. Then they removed the decompression stem they put

in my leg and I pretty much been with pain every single day over the past 17

years. And every day became crutches cane or walker and I'm only 38 years old now I can't go

to a restaurant carrying my train without having someone to help me when

we would go to grocery stores I don't do a lot of walking I finally have to

sit down once again because too much walking it just too much pain on

me if I sit down too long it's too much pain. I met Dr. Ekberg been coming here

ever since for about a little over a month and now about six weeks and I've

never felt this good in the past 17 years I'm able to move and get out and

enjoy my family that I could not do 17 years so I really appreciate everything he's done.

Do you want to start telling us how you heard about us

My wife told me about her friend, a doctor, that helped her daughter out so well so

I was like sure let's try and I realized there was an hour's drive but after

coming at one time that I will became a five minute

drive easily so our drive here is worth it. if anybody that had the pain that

they want to get rid of that you cannot be too far away what did you notice

right after the first adjustment after the first adjustment I could even me I

was pain free immediately I mean I was literally pain free I was able to do

certain movements with make that I wasn't able to do just as simple things

is just tying my shoe. I seen Dr. Ekberg on a Friday that Saturday i was at the

park playing on my kids pain free and that Sunday when i normally would have

pain after a big day with my kids i'm usually shut down completely the very

next day it wasn't a case you're like a brand new day all over again I could do

more things again so just one session one session I saw years come right

back to my life in one session. can you just stand up for us and show us that. if

i can finally lift my right leg up straight without going out here usually

I like to go out ahead and lift my leg up now I just take it straight straight

up straight up I can do this now I couldn't do that at all and it because

of the pain in the areas that and that it comes from is like because it's all

over the whole right side I'm a whole right leg and just just that one

movement allows me to tie my shoe walk when the with less pain and the be able

to bend over and pick my kids up and not have a lot of pain if you been to a

restaurant and you haven't been able to hold a tray right that that that brings

the picture off the people oh yeah it is I wish my kids could be going to let

them tell you their version for me because every day they ask can we play

basketball can you throw the ball If I'm pain it's like I can't

They can't even sit on my lap sometime I'm in so much pain they can t sit on my

left I mean you get kids and they get grown so fast they too big to sit in

your lap so you want to really endure that and a long time I couldn't. You came

walking in here with a cane right yes I came walking with the cane I walked out

without the cane because I had no pressure no no pain so I feel tremendous at that time

and what had the orthopedic surgeons and the people you had consulted previously

what what had they told you what sort of hope and prognosis have they had for you

the only hope and prognosis they had was a total hip replacement and they said

over time that's going to be the inevitable to happen which was kind of

scary to me because I had two hip surgeries already and they tell me if I can

continue with the pain tolerance on which they say I have a high pain tolerance to

continue that because the only thing they can do is a total hip replacement

that's the only thing they can do it is point in time when he told me and a

bunch of pin pills which I don't really care too much for. I hear you on

that so I think what we want to explain also the people is that the difference

in what we do versus orthopedic because whenever they see something on an x-ray

that's their reality whatever they can see on a picture that's the reality to

them we try to look more at the function we're saying well we can see what it

looks like but what sort of deficiency what sort of malfunction led to that and

if we can start reversing or changing that malfunction then we may be able to

restore function even if the x-ray still looks bad right and that's essentially

what would happen in your case because avascular necrosis basically means that

because of some sort of trauma you lose blood supply to the head of the femur

and that femur head is supposed to be nice and round and smooth to fit into

that hip joint but when it loses blood supply and

you have necrosis it basically dies and starts crumbling and withering away for

exactly and then what the orthopedic people do is they look at that and they

say well we've never seen one turn around so you're just going to have pain

but they're not looking at what is it that that's creating or what's what sort

of function is missing here so a hip joint can only we want to ask well why

did it get like that in the first place were so why does a hip joint get

traumatized why why does it stop working why does it get traumatized to the point

where the blood supply can't get there and it starts dying hip joint only works

as or any joint only works as well as the muscles that are stabilizing it a

joint has absolutely no purpose unless there are muscles that that can move it

around and keep it stable but those muscles even though they may need to

have a certain capacity to to create force they don't decide anything so it's

the signals from the brain to the muscles then that actually is creating

that function in the hip joint okay so if there is a problem with a hip joint

then there's something wrong with the signals from the brain to the muscle and

that's what happened at some point before you even had your very first

injury and we don't know when before that injury it happened but there was

already some sort of malfunction and we can still come in 20 years later and

start rebuilding that function if we know what to look for I I will agree

with that you've you've already started that with me I mean it's awesome and

then that's what I think about your practice is the teaching of for the

patient I'm a patient I like to be explained what's going

with me from a doctor's standpoint and that's why I appreciate your practice

and your company so much is because you break down how the body supposed to be

and how the body can naturally heal itself and whereas normal doctors they

they may as quickly give you a quick fix Here is some medicine here some pain pill

come back later when they run out and that's when I appreciate it I know and

I've gotten a whole lot better just from understanding had a brain function with

each body part with the whole muscle thing and I've never been told about the

muscle with my hip I never was told to get the muscles stronger again that you

you actually move my legs in motion is to where everyday movement effects that

and when you allowing it to ease up the pressure whole lot more because you are

exercising that you are getting the muscle more for me we're doing it once

again as opposed to just go to the weight room and just lift some weights

and get that muscle strong it's not only about that yeah so I appreciate you for

then and the work that we're doing for your muscles is we're using them in

specific ways to give the brain specific messages so it can help connect in all

the different directions and that's what makes the difference oh well there

that's it then that's what it does it makes a big difference excellent well

we're so glad to have you and I'm so glad we can make a difference for you

yes thank you. we'll keep working on it I know we will thank you so very thank you