A patient recently improved and was released from active care at Johnson Family Chiropractic of Peoria and was kind enough to write about her experience: "I had never had chiropractic care until my back and hip were causing me pain and my sister recommended Dr. Johnson. She said i should try chiropractic adjustment and she liked his activator method. So i called Dr. Johnson and i was impressed right from the beginning that he was friendly and gave me an appointment for the next day for which i was grateful because my pain was getting worse. He reassured me on my first visit that he could help me and he was right. Each visit he explained things and encouraged me. I can testify that i am much,much better and i'm thankful for Dr. Johnson's expertise and would highly recommend him as an exceptional doctor who has a confident and caring manner." It has been so exciting to watch this patient improve with each visit and regain the ability to do the daily activities that had been difficult! Thankfully, thanks to chiropractic, low back pain and hip pain are not inevitable conditions that people just have to live with.
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A patient here at Johnson Family Chiropractic of Peoria has very kindly composed a testimonial regarding his care and treatment in this office. He was suffering from debilitating dizziness that occurred when he would lay down or turn his head or even retract his head (pull it backwards). The dizziness would totally prevent him from living normal life or even concentrate, and the anxiety he was beginning to feel about oncoming dizziness was nearly a problem in its own right. He is very happy to report that, through the care he's received in this office, he no longer has the dizziness: I was going to another chiropractor for my dizziness. I couldn't lay on either side without getting dizzy, bad, and he helped me get to where I could lay on my left side sometimes but I couldn't lay on my right. He said he was trying to free up the right side of my C2 and gave me the same treatment every time. It wasn't helping. The dizziness was bad, where no one could live with it. I could have gone to the other guy for years and nothing would have changed. Coming to Dr. Johnson has changed everything. I have confidence in his skill and experience, and there's nothing like experience. He solved my dizziness and I could lay on my right side again. The dizziness came back again about a month later, and I went right over and he solved it again in a few visits. I haven't felt it one time this week, not one time. It is very likely that this patient's dizziness is cervicogenic (caused by neck problems) since chiropractic adjustments to the neck helped to completely resolve his symptoms. It is also very likely that his dizziness will recur from time to time, based on ongoing neck problems. However, it's been extraordinary to watch him recover and to see him filled with hope... hope that next time his dizziness returns he will be able to resolve it again via chiropractic care.
This has been a marvelous success story, in which a patient has been able to return to his normal life. Stories from other patients can be found on our Patient Testimonial webpage. Doctors love to help people, which is why most of us become doctors in the first place. However, we all know that help usually comes slowly, incrementally, a bit at a time. But sometimes things happen surprisingly quickly, and people get better beyond any and all expectations. This happened just recently in our practice. A gentleman came to our office seeking help for a neck pain issue that had been ongoing for years, and was astonished to find almost instant relief by using chiropractic. Here's the story in his own words: After four years of doctoring with a rheumatologist for severe pain in my neck and shoulders, diagnosed as arthritis, I visited my wife's chiropractor, Dr. Kyle Johnson. I had relief from the pain after the first visit. After four treatments I'm completely pain free. It doesn't seem possible, but it is absolutely true. It's exciting to be excited! This gentleman is so thrilled about the care he received here that he can't wait to share the good news with others. Sometimes problems that don't seem like chiropractic problems can still respond to chiropractic treatment, even when it sometimes doesn't even seem possible.
If you're ever wondering whether chiropractic actually works, all you have to do is ask a current chiropractic patient. It is very true that four out of five patients in this office have been referred by other patients. Johnson Family Chiropractic does not advertise, so most new patients to our office have heard about us from other patients. Why would someone go out of her way to recommend that someone else try Johnson Family Chiropractic? Because they have had good results. In the end, chiropractic is a results-oriented business. If chiropractic didn't work, then nobody would go to chiropractors, and chiropractic businesses would eventually fold up. But people do go to chiropractors, and do recommend their chiropractors to other people, because there are good results to be found there. Here's a great example. A patient has taken the time to write down her recommendation for Johnson Family Chiropractic of Peoria... taking the time and energy to do so is the greatest compliment we can receive. Here's what she said: I have been a patient of Dr. Johnson's for several years now and give him my highest recommendation for dealing with musculoskeletal issues of all sorts. He has seen me through acute injuries of everything from ankle and knee injuries to back and jaw problems with gentle, effective treatment. Using the activator he has been able to adjust my neck when other chiropractors couldn't by other means and the pain relief is amazing! I greatly appreciate his always-pleasant demeanor, his depth of knowledge, and his willingness to share what he knows. He cares deeply about his patients and operates with the highest ethical standards. My whole family has benefitted from Dr. Johnson's care: husband, children, elderly mother, even my grandchildren! I will forever be grateful that he is our chiropractor. Chiropractic can have wonderful results! Please read what others have written when they have recommended Johnson Family Chiropractic of Peoria.
This is a personal story, because it happened to me this past month. Most of the best medical stories are anecdotes rather than research papers, so here's an anecdotal case study for you!
Just like many people in the Peoria area and around the country, I had a case of the flu in January. It involved several days of feeling exhausted, achy, and feverish, so I spent a couple days laying around without much energy to move. That's pretty typical for the flu, and there were no other health escalations or worries. However, I noticed that as soon as I started feeling better I had diarrhea with early morning and late evening abdominal cramps. This is unusual. Many times people will talk about the "stomach flu", but the truth is that real influenza does not cause gastrointestinal problems. If you're nauseated or throwing up, you probably don't have the flu. Influenza is an upper respiratory illness only. I had never experienced this pairing of symptoms, so I thought I'd keep an eye on it. So I noticed that the diarrhea just did not improve at all over the next couple weeks. Frankly, I had thought that once my body recovered from the flu, then it would work on healing whatever it was that was causing my diarrhea. But it now didn't seem so simple. So I embarked on what I consider to be a fairly typical way to address diarrhea using non-pharmaceutical methods. First, I drank plenty of water to make sure that I didn't dehydrate. Then I started changing my diet, one item at a time. I started eating more fiber like bran cereal, then stopped when it made no change. I went several days without drinking a beer. I increased my intake of whole fruits and vegetables like bananas. (I do not drink coffee or cola so I didn't have to change my caffeine intake. I had not recently taken any antibiotics.) But, nope. Nothing was making it better. It was now about four to five weeks of diarrhea, loose stools. There was no blood in my stool and I didn't have a fever, so I assumed that my colon was still healthy and I didn't have an infection. This was just flat-out mysterious. There were other remedies that I was ready to try, such as a 24-hour liquid diet to rest the bowels, neutroceuticals, and pharmaceuticals. But then I remembered something important, which made me feel a bit foolish. I hadn't yet tried chiropractic care. And I'm a chiropractor! Sometimes we all miss what's right in front of us. So, I started looking at my own symptoms in a whole new light, and tried to process my case as though I was a patient. My diarrhea had begun after the flu, but what if it wasn't related to the flu at all? What if it was caused by simply lying around in a bed and saggy couch for several days in a row? What if that poor posture for several days had affected my spinal lumbar curve? What if, even though I didn't have low back pain, the lumbar curve problem was irritating the nerves that leave my spinal cord to tell the colon what do? We know that the nervous system acts as a muscle inhibitor. In other words, when the nerves are functioning properly, they tell muscles NOT to contract. And when the nerves are not functioning properly, the muscles will contract on their own just because that's what they like to do. We also know that people can have spinal problems without having pain, because pain is a poor predictor of low-level nerve irritation. So, I now theorized, I might be experiencing a chiropractic problem, where my nerves were inhibited due to a postural problem, allowing the muscles of my colon to move the food through WAY TOO FAST instead of compacting the foot into nice, proper, solid stool. I received an Activator Methods chiropractic adjustment, and the diarrhea cleared up, like magic. That night I had no gassy feeling and the following morning I had no diarrhea at all. Just a perfect bowel movement. The diarrhea returned the following day, as sometimes happens with longstanding problems. Spinal or muscular habits don't usually disappear immediately, but take a couple of repeated reminders to form proper habits. So I returned for a couple more Activator Methods chiropractic adjustments, and I'm happy to state that the diarrhea has now cleared up entirely. Some might say that's coincidence, but mild cases of diarrhea don't typically linger for 5+ weeks, and more severe cases of diarrhea don't typically respond to chiropractic care alone. So I think it's very likely that my current theory is correct (even though it took me far too long to think of it!). I think my poor posture initiated a cascade effect where my spinal problem gave me no pain but only one symptom: diarrhea. And rather than treat it with drugs, I only needed to treat it with chiropractic care after all. Chiropractic and diarrhea. They might not be unrelated after all. |
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