Relief from fractured spine from horse accident - Your Cumming Chiropractor

Hello I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg and I have Leslie here we're just going to chat for

a few minutes and maybe share some things that can be helpful for other

people so Leslie you came to us several months ago and you had just real quick

what issues did you have back then and how how did we help with that initially

it was just day-to-day discomfort I'm a very active lifestyle I do a lot of

physical activity we run a horse farm and I take care of the lion's share of

the heavy duty around the farm okay so if you can imagine just take some pains

of being over 50 yeah I'm doing manual labor yeah and you had specifically some

shoulder and neck issues right I did fame blingin I did I had a lot of

discomfort a lot of pain that would manifest itself at night in my arm and

my shoulder inability to sort of lift things past a certain level and you knew

that how did that change for you over the course of our treatment

I could feel initially when I would leave the office there would be an

alleviation of pain and there was a progressive ability and larger range of

motion and to the end of you know that timeframe I was able to lift large

objects over my head with no pain at all yeah and then is what I want maybe some

people to know you had a little bit of an incident with with the horse okay you

want to tell us about that sure I actually had a bit of a severe

injury where I had an avulsion fracture of three lumbar vertebrae where the

transfer processes were sort of ripped off the vertebrae itself and not

necessarily my biggest issue I think it was the muscle damage and the mare pain

that was a so with that so probably the most intense

pain that I felt ever yeah and that was how long ago now a month in

a day a month in a day and I'm asking this because most people would think

when you break your back the last place you want to go is the chiropractor

yeah but it turned out you had a pretty smart doctor who actually encouraged

chiropractic and what sort of results did you get when we started working with

you I was very fortunate where the emergency room that treated me initially

was open-minded and receptive to all the modalities sort of non-traditionally

that we pursue as a family you being a major part of that and we alerted him

that we were going to come here right away I think I was here within 48 hours

of the initial injury so since you had your accident and the fracture in the

back and you came back into this office how has that helped you it's been

amazing I think in the beginning getting here was the hardest thing sitting in

the car and actually getting here but in the three times that I've seen you in

the course of the month from my initial injury I'm I am at this point I am fine

I am back to my pre-injury activities the first time I came here it was it was

very very painful and I think it was predominantly because of pressure on a

nerve not necessarily anything else the work that you did helped to alleviate

that pain and with the reduction and swelling that my body took care of

naturally it just got better better yeah yeah so just for the record we would

never adjust the broken bones but when you have broken bones you have bleeding

and swelling and inflammation that that create most of the pain and the issues

that you have and what we can do is we can help the body deal with those things

because the body is going to go into reflex spasms and protection and and all

bets are off I mean nothing's going to work it's going to be chaos so what we

can't fix the broken bones but we can help clean up the chaos and when we turn

on some signaling and some muscle function and some communication again

with with very gentle stimulation then your body starts working better again so

thanks for sharing that because we want to help people understand that

chiropractic is not just cracking bones it's it's about stimulating the nervous

system and it can have really far-reaching effects on things that

people don't expect absolutely anything else that you want to add I would just

reiterate how subtle your adjustments were and you know when me and I think of

the word and some of the definition of adjustments and it isn't necessarily an

adjustment that we would understand it was more the the touch and and the

slight slight pressure and your ability to work on me in a standing position and

to not ask my body to do something it wasn't uncomfortable with it was amazing

yeah I thank you very good thank you