Outpatient Clinic Experience

Last week I went to the outpatient clinic a couple times to start the battle once again against my stubborn "cycling back".  In the sport of bike racing and riding there is a postural cost you experience after years of training and then quitting suddenly.  Sitting for hours upon hours in Hampton Hall hasn't made things any better.

To combat my aches and pains I made an appointment with an intern at the OPC last week.  Alex, an eleventh quarter student, adjusted me head to toe, or toe to head, rather.  I initially left feeling good but felt my muscles tense even more.  Before I left, I told him the Graston therapy helped significantly last time I was in and he took note.  Last Friday, Alex worked on my stubborn muscles with Graston and I have to tell you, it worked!

The pain from the soft tissue therapy wasn't bad.  He kept it at about a 7 on the pain scale and it turned out to be a good experience overall.  Today, I went mountain biking with Alex and Sadie and didn't feel any pain whatsoever during the ride.  My body was working as it should biomechanically.

In this context, I strongly feel chiropractic is a great benefit to overall health.  Ever since I started riding again, I have been uncomfortable on the bike.  After the manual therapy was applied I quit experiencing pain and was able to ride at about 90% of normal (minus training benefits, of course).  It is neat to have a first hand experience with the therapeutic changes induced by manual medicine.  Alex's treatments allowed me to continue living actively.  Just think, if we somehow match up our chiropractic training to fitness programming we could get people active and keep them active via preventive therapy.  Exciting!

All for now