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Hello. I have Scoliosis with only a slight curvature (19 degrees thoracic, but I can't remember what the cervical curve is--which is the primary curve).
Most recently, my left shoulder has been acting up again, and I was feeling a pull from my neck across the top of my shoulder. In addition, I was feeling an occasional tingle in my hand. I regularly see a massage therapist (once every 3 weeks), even when things aren't acting up, and she worked on my muscles in the shoulder & upper back area. That definitely helped. I've been seeing my chiropractor 3x a week to work on this for the last few weeks. In addition, even though I'm not a major fan of exercise, I'm working on being more disciplined about it now. I'm back to doing Elise Miller's Yoga for Scoliosis (dvd) exercises. The good news is that the pulling feeling across my shoulder is gone now(!), however, the hand tingle thing is still going on. The chiro took Xrays and this is what he found:
He said that I have advanced-for-my-age (47) arthritis in the upper part of my spine, and at least one bone spur where two discs have fused themselves together.
The chiro thinks that something is pinching my median nerve. That's why I get the tingling in my fingers. (Thumb, index and a little in the middle finger.) When he does a cervical spinal manipulation by twisting my head somewhat firmly to the left, I get the most awful feeling. It's difficult to describe--it's like I feel a lightning bolt zing down from my neck, down towards the inside of my left arm, and ending at my fingertips. I mentioned it to the chiro, and he said, "It's that median nerve." Frankly, it scared the heck out of me, and I'm not sure if that particular manipulation is a good thing or not?
Has anyone else ever experienced that---the electrical zap feeling from a spinal manipulation?
Thanks,
dsal
Most recently, my left shoulder has been acting up again, and I was feeling a pull from my neck across the top of my shoulder. In addition, I was feeling an occasional tingle in my hand. I regularly see a massage therapist (once every 3 weeks), even when things aren't acting up, and she worked on my muscles in the shoulder & upper back area. That definitely helped. I've been seeing my chiropractor 3x a week to work on this for the last few weeks. In addition, even though I'm not a major fan of exercise, I'm working on being more disciplined about it now. I'm back to doing Elise Miller's Yoga for Scoliosis (dvd) exercises. The good news is that the pulling feeling across my shoulder is gone now(!), however, the hand tingle thing is still going on. The chiro took Xrays and this is what he found:
He said that I have advanced-for-my-age (47) arthritis in the upper part of my spine, and at least one bone spur where two discs have fused themselves together.
The chiro thinks that something is pinching my median nerve. That's why I get the tingling in my fingers. (Thumb, index and a little in the middle finger.) When he does a cervical spinal manipulation by twisting my head somewhat firmly to the left, I get the most awful feeling. It's difficult to describe--it's like I feel a lightning bolt zing down from my neck, down towards the inside of my left arm, and ending at my fingertips. I mentioned it to the chiro, and he said, "It's that median nerve." Frankly, it scared the heck out of me, and I'm not sure if that particular manipulation is a good thing or not?
Has anyone else ever experienced that---the electrical zap feeling from a spinal manipulation?
Thanks,
dsal
So for now, I'm just going to tolerate it, and keep doing my Yoga For Scoliosis. Plus, I'm looking into the SpineCor brace, so maybe (?) that will help things too.
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