Any practitioners using postural based adjustments??

[Sleepy Dragon]

This is my first post so please be gentle!!!

I have spent the last 18 months trying to get to the bottom of my back problems. I have seen osteopaths/physio/back clinic/acupuncturist and last week was at then end of my tether.

I was perswaded by my folks to see a Chiroractor. He took a number of x-rays and at long last i have found the cause of my problems.

The only thing is he lives on the Isle of Man and I am in Herefordshire!! Is there anyone out there who is in the Herefordshire/Worcestershire/Gloucestershire area who performs postural based adjustments on a drop table. i think the Thompson Technique also uses the drop table so also anyone practising that!!

After such a long journey I just want to get on with treatment - he has given me a number of exercises to work on until I can fly back and see him hopefully in April but if i can find someone more local all the better.

Anyone out there who can help???

[kvdp]

I'll be as gentle as I can! Welcome! As to the question, the lack of success you've experienced is very common, but is seldom due to failure to apply the correct technique. In my experience the range and scope of skills available to patients is huge, yet still your story is a common one. What is missing is the vision to apply the skills available in a productive manner. In the same way, if you are choosing a carpenter, you don't pick the one with the most tools, they can be used to make firewood just as easily as make a Chippendale chair. What you go by is their previous work. I don't give money back guarantees because there's simply no need - my patients tend to get better, even the 'stubborn' and complicated cases. So although I don't have a drop table, this fact has never been the single thing that stopped somebody recovering. Hence I'm pretty sure my methods are sufficient to help, but whether you're prepared to accept an unfamiliar way to see the problem is a bigger question. And you'd have to come to London or Oxford.

[Sleepy Dragon]

Hi thanks for your reply.

I have concentrated on the drop table and postural based adjustment technique as this is what the chiropractor told me to look out for - but as you say the type of table used won't make much difference.

I have spent so much time and money not getting anywhere so far, and now I have this glimmer of hope in that I have seen for myself what is causing my problems and this is why I guess I am concentrating on the style used by the chiropractor I saw the other day.

I must admit I do not know anything about chiropractic styles, up until now I have only seen osteopaths/physios/back doctors. So I am working in the dark a little!!!

Thanks again

Julie

[kvdp]

Hi again, well I am actually an osteopath not a chiropractor, but there is so much variation among us that I hope your previous experience doesn't colour your views too much. What you need to find is the right practitioner, the school they studied at is less important. I guarantee the right help is available, it's a matter of finding it. Good luck!

[stephen jeffrey]

Can your IOM chiro not give you any contacts ? he should understand the impractabilities of your situation beyond you flying back and forth ?

I always referer clients to my fellow therapists on my register but as KVDP says we all have different tool boxes and use our tools differently?

Good luck