Getting fed up of back pain!!!

[mrwperae]

Hi, been reading through back problem threads and thought I'd add my own to see if anyone has had similar or can offer suggestions. I'd been suffering from back pain now for over 2 years which consists of lower backpain, upper backpain/shoulder pain, constant headaches, numbness in left arm and leg and chest pain. I've been to the doctors and to see a neurologist and have been told I have a pulled tendon below left shoulder and also cervical spondylosis. I wient to see a chiropractor last week as nothing else seems to be working and he said that I was totally out of alignment. Since I went I've had no headaches and the lower back pain has virtually disappeared. However when I got up this morning my neck is really painful and I can't move it rund to the left without getting pain in my left back/shoulder area. Can anyone help?????

 

[purpleshamrock]

I realise it's been a while now since your Post and hopefully by now the problem has resolved.

Whilst I used to be a regular contributor, butof late visits have been rather sporadic.

From your account;

[ul][*]I hope that you went back or at least discussed with your chiropractor what happened.[*]And that the problem has now resolved.[/ul]
I offer some pointers, based on nothing but your account, with a large amount of assumption.

The chiropractor released various joints in your back & neck, which temporarily relieved almost all the symptoms. Ashort timelateryou woke and they had returned.

This suggestesthat the chiropractic diagnosis & treatment was a lot nearer to the mark than your previous diagnosis.

It's most likely that several of the joints released had been stiff for a long time and had stiffened / 'locked up'again and this really aught to have been explained to you that this may happen and further treatments &/or stretching exercises to keep them moving may have been advised.

If not, then trying another practitioner - chiropractor or osteopath may be the way forward.

Either way it sounds like a relatively simple problem. Almost all of us of a reasonable vintage have a degree of cervical spondylosis. It just means you have a degree of degeneration in the spine of the neck. When it's inflammed and causing pain in the neck, then it's called cervical spondylitis and is likely causing the shoulder symptoms.

Andrew.