Chiropractor's Adjustments for Relief

[KiimoZigzag]

And have any Docs validated such:Mine began like I'd been hit by a bomb the evening after doing a muscle resistance test at a Chiropractor's office...pushing hard against a pad with my forehead on a machine that registered the pressure exerted. Subsequently he kept adjusting C1-C2 and it would provide temporary relief. This occurred almost 20 years ago, and except for about a year of relief after physical therapy and before "re-injuring" my spinal cervical area working on my car I've had varying degrees of fasciculation. MRI looks essentially "normal" and Neuros say BFS. My magnesium level is good. I believe about 80% of my fasciculation is due to mechanical pressure/irritation on a nerve root in the mid to upper spinal cervical area. Also can incur a fair amt into a leg when lower lumbar area gets flared up (disk bulges at S1-L5 & L5-L4). I base this on continuing gentle Chiro adjusting and massage therapy.I would like to get an updated MRI as the last one was at least 12 years ago, perhaps it would show something that could add credence to my theory.Also, does anyone know why anti-depressants can cause twitching, i.e. what is it chemically or molecularly that causes this - anyone ever found a bona fide physiological explanation?TIAPS The ONLY twitching I had experienced prior to this was briefly in my thumb at nite a couple times, or so - I expect from some thoracic nerve impingement sleeping on too firm a mattress.

 

[CosmicVisitor]

I think it would be interesting to have a survey of all who have had their neck wrought by a chiropractor. I went to one in 1994 after vehicle accident. He did what he called adjustments... it's cracking ... like when you crack your knuckles.. nothing more.. so when you are cracking your knuckles.. say I am adjusting my knuckles.. h ha .. any way.. I was getting an " adjustment" one day and as he twisted my neck, I felt a electrical shock run down the left side of my body... I told him and it scared him so much that he would not treat me anymore.. If you are going to bother with an mri, don't waste time with an open mri or a 1.5t... find someone with a 3t mr machine and drive the distance if you have to .. anything less than 3t is garbage.. do you have any radiculopathy ? As far as fasciculations go.. it has never been proven weather the muscle itself it's axon or neuron are responsible for the anomaly. What we do know is that in a benign setting the fasciculations are not grouped quite the same in appearance. There has been much debate on this so I won't say I have the final word, but I can say that I have seen ALS fasciculations and they are actually more segmented and less diffuse. let me say also that when I have observed someone with ALS, the fascics are only visible in the atrophied limb.

 

[KiimoZigzag]

radiculopathy: typically varying degrees of numbness into lower leg, sometimes with referred pain into the foot. Occasionally weakness into one arm and hand.That's how my low back was hurt - by a "cruncher" Chiro in 1986...I would go to him 3 or 4 times a year and always feel great afterwards; one day the low back twist apparently didn't go quite right - might have even been due to pants around waist were too tight and caused restriction? Or he just did it too forcefully? (Great guy, unfortunate incident)There are times when fascics are active and hitting various muscles - akin to a lightning strike with multiple forks. But, out of the hundreds of thousands of fascics I can't say definitively that they've ever occurred exactly simultaneously...that has been perplexing to me. (Sure, there are times when I can get just one particular muscle that might fascic fairly steady or intermittently for hours.) Any thots on multiple muscles fascicing but not simultaneously? Do others here get them simultaneously?PS Thanks for the MRI machine perspective!