I don't know why the photos didn't show up I used the attachment uploaded. Anyhow I had one car wreck when I was 18. Went into a drainage ditch and my head hit the roof of the car@ 30mph. Also been hit in the head by a 4 car wide garage door in a service department when I was 19. I try to snack during long sessions I can't play on a full stomach because of a hiatial hernia which is a b!tch to deal with. Yes they smoke in the bar I was playing last night. I don't drink Caffeine or alcohol. Have not drank caffeine in 2 years.
This sounds very familiar. You were a teenager so you just figured you were invincible. For me, the real problem took years before I finally recognized it. I have been seeing my naprapath for maybe about 12 years now. It is funny.... he and I are about the same age so I talk about various things with him. We talk about our kids, our wives, our businesses. And we talk about when we were kids...all kinds of things. This naprapath is brutally honest...says he did ok in school, mostly B's, some B+'s, even some A's, but he got in with the wrong crowd for a while and got in a little trouble back then. He recognized that he needed to grow up and from that point, he did well in school and in life.
Point is, I have every reason in the world to trust this guy. He has been absolutely honest about everything. I believe every word he says. And one of the things he says is that if you walk out in the street, about 70 percent of the people you see would get a benefit from naprapathy. They just don't realize that they had a problem earlier in their life that is causing them trouble now. He has worked on everything from toddlers to pets. I think he said one time he did a pot belly pig!
Getting to dollars and cents....I went in for a consultation: no charge. Just asked questions....symptoms, possible sources of trouble like we already covered, anything else he thinks of. He measured me with this big caliper type device that he sets to checkpoints on my body and also it measures the weight I am putting on each foot (when your neck/spine is screwed up, you tend to stand at an angle in order to relieve the stress and you don't even realize you are doing it; that is why the original doctor said my legs were not aligned....I thought he was crazy). I am a mechanical engineer by occupation so the relevance of these measurements make perfect sense to me. He showed me how my spine was cocked at about a 7 degree angle and I was carrying about 88 lbs on one foot and 110 on the other. This was all free.
I made an appointment for the x-rays which now is going to cost some money. Insurance didn't cover anything. I think the x-rays were maybe $400 or something and then I had the twice weekly sessions to straighten me out at $65 a pop. Like I said, this went on for six, maybe eight weeks tops as in the story I described above. All told, somewhere between $1,500 and $2,000 out of pocket, but my headaches literally vanished! I could sleep through the night! And with the caliper thing, I was standing perfectly straight and even weight on both feet. When you are right, you can just feel it.
So today, it costs me $65 every two months or so, relative pocket change....about $1 a day. You probably spend more money on coffee. And I can tell when my head is not right....when I do a lot of driving or when I have to work underneath machinery, sometimes, I schedule an earlier appointment to get straightened out. And literally, after an adjustment, I walk out the door just feeling better. Like I said, sometimes my vision is blurry. Doc does his thing, and I stand up straight and tall, and my vision is clear! It is amazing! My life is different and obviously much better since seeing this guy.
If you look into naprapath places, and they give you a first consultation no charge, you have no reason not to do it. Your experience should be very similar to what I described. If not, check with another naprapath. It has been and continues to be worth every penny.
Oh, and by the way, I don't play much pool at all, but after an adjustment, my snooker is greatly improved! I wish you the best of luck and best of health.
