As many of you know, I had surgery on June 8. About 3 weeks after surgery, my neck pretty much "collapsed" and basically my chin sits on my chest. After I wake up from a 8 hour sleep, my neck is totally upright now for about 1 hour. Then it falls again and I have to put my neck brace on. I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old so I am having a very DIFFICULT time. I have a really good friend who is a chiropractor and spoke to him for an hour on the phone the other night. He said the majority of people who have scoliosis have "military" necks where the vertebrae are completely straight instead of having a curve. He told me, and I verified this online, that sometimes after spinal fusion which ends up high (mine is T3 to L3) the neck may have problems holding itself up in a small number of cases (obviously this is rare). I am almost 8 weeks post op and physical therapy is only helping my neck a little. After a session of message, I can hold my neck up for 2 1/2 hours, but how will I ever hold my neck up for 12 hrs a day? My kids will be starting kindergarten and preschool and I HAVE to be able to drive in Sept. My back is fine, it's just my neck that is holding me up. So I decided I am going to let my chiropractor touch my neck. I am VERY nervous about this, but my physical therapist also said she thinks it's a good idea. She said my facet joints in my neck may be locked or something. My chiropractor swore he would NOT touch my back, he is just going to push a few vertebrae in my neck forward (first he needs to see what vertebrae are affected in my neck).
So my question to everyone is, has anyone seen a chiropractor post-surgery just for their neck? I'm sure 90% of the people on this forum think it's a bad idea, but I am starting to get soooo depressed and need to try something different rather than just physical therapy where I think isn't getting me anywhere. I just wanted to get your opinions.
Dr. Boachie, when I asked him 6 months prior to my surgery, said I could go back to a chiropractor if I had a neck problem. I specifically asked him because I was currently getting pinched nerves in my neck for the past 5 years where I couldn't even turn my neck to a certain direction and my chiro would always help me with this.
Just wanted to hear your responses on this. Was also wondering if anyone still goes to a chiro for the neck post-surgery?
Thanks for your advice!!!
JenM
So my question to everyone is, has anyone seen a chiropractor post-surgery just for their neck? I'm sure 90% of the people on this forum think it's a bad idea, but I am starting to get soooo depressed and need to try something different rather than just physical therapy where I think isn't getting me anywhere. I just wanted to get your opinions.
Dr. Boachie, when I asked him 6 months prior to my surgery, said I could go back to a chiropractor if I had a neck problem. I specifically asked him because I was currently getting pinched nerves in my neck for the past 5 years where I couldn't even turn my neck to a certain direction and my chiro would always help me with this.
Just wanted to hear your responses on this. Was also wondering if anyone still goes to a chiro for the neck post-surgery?
Thanks for your advice!!!
JenM
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