Can any branch of Medicine, or alternatively, Alternative, digagnose a "Bad Back" absent x-rays, MRI's, etc? by "feel" or anything else non-invasive? My brother in Florida (the one that had cancer, but didn't) a few days ago had rather emergency surgery for a badly hernieated disk & a cyst on his spine, determined by an MRI. Anyway it made me think back to my two separate encounters with the Acupuncturist, 8 years ago & then last year. In both cases, for the frozen shoulder & then for the sprained knee, she (same one) determined that my lower back was badly "out of whack", particularly in the "knee matter", just by feel. In neither case did I have a concurrent backache (thank God!) I don't recall what the Chiropractor said about my back when she was working on my frozen shoulder (this was after I gave up on acupuncture), but I know she didn;t focus on it. Neither saw any x-rays of my back since there weren't any. So I go back to my original question...
You already told us the answer. <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Can any branch of Medicine, or alternatively, Alternative, digagnose a "Bad Back" absent x-rays, > MRI's, etc? by "feel" or anything else non-invasive? > > My brother in Florida (the one that had cancer, but didn't) a few days ago had rather emergency > surgery for a badly hernieated disk & a cyst on his spine, determined by an MRI. > > Anyway it made me think back to my two separate encounters with the Acupuncturist, 8 years ago & > then last year. In both cases, for the frozen shoulder & then for the sprained knee, she (same > one) determined that my lower back was badly "out of whack", particularly in the "knee matter", > just by feel. In neither case did I have a concurrent backache (thank God!) I don't recall what > the Chiropractor said about my back when she was working on my frozen shoulder (this was after I > gave up on acupuncture), but I know she didn;t focus on it. Neither saw any x-rays of my back > since there weren't any. > > So I go back to my original question...
