New Chiro

"John Hanson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

Guy sounds like a quack. Strong SOB, but a quack nonetheless.

On Wed, 18 May 2005 22:00:06 -0500, "Jim R." <mmm...nah> wrote in
misc.fitness.weights:

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"John Hanson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

Guy sounds like a quack. Strong SOB, but a quack nonetheless.

On the contrary, the tissues on my upper back are sore as hell but
everything feels like it's in place for the first time in a year and a
half. I spent more than a dozen sessions with my last chiro and I
could never say that. Plus, other powerlifters I know swear by him.
But, you're right, he is strong as hell. So strong that I thought
that spot he was putting pressure on was going to snap...I guess it
did but upwards where it belongs.

In article <[email hidden]>, John Hanson

Quoted message said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

Always a good thing...

:^)

Good luck in the meet John.

--
Keith

Yo, fat boy,
I am an expert on chiropractors, and this guy is a quack and a jerk.
Saturday you will get creamed because this dork F'ed you up. I
guarantee it. Find a qualified chiropractor, not a quackopractor. Good
chiropractory does not hurt.

John Hanson said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 22:00:06 -0500, "Jim R." <mmm...nah> wrote in
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"John Hanson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it

doesn't

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let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today.

He's

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Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have

a

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rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when

my

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next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks

me if

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I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before.

He

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kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what

seemed

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like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed

his

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other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different

spot

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and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back

once

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more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice.

The

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last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then

tells

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me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on

my

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belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes.

He

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then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times

within

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about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have

any

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rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal

up

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enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told

me to

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start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy

more

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bumpers:-)

Guy sounds like a quack. Strong SOB, but a quack nonetheless.

On the contrary, the tissues on my upper back are sore as hell but
everything feels like it's in place for the first time in a year and

a

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half. I spent more than a dozen sessions with my last chiro and I
could never say that. Plus, other powerlifters I know swear by him.
But, you're right, he is strong as hell. So strong that I thought
that spot he was putting pressure on was going to snap...I guess it
did but upwards where it belongs.

John Hanson said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the month.
I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a neuromuscular
massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she tries to "align" me
that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political joke in
there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some accupuncture
to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going towards some
tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after it cropped up.
It pisses me off that my friends says this works, because I can't spot
chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when they claim to unblock it.

What do you think?

Delenn

On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:31:22 -0600, [email hidden] (Hobbes) wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>, John Hanson

Quoted message said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

Always a good thing...

Yes, yes it is! What he actually said was to stop doing those
routines in PLUSA like the ones that having me do rows and do high
pulls instead, which I thought was hilarious considering we usually
say that here about the fitness rags. Anywho, he said I need to train
for my body and my upper back needs high pulls!

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:^)

Good luck in the meet John.

Thanks, Keith!

John Hanson said:

What do I think? My last chiro was recommended to me by a training
partner. I used him and never experienced one bit of pain during the
treatments. But, he never really helped me either. When I went to
the gym tonight and told Ron I went to Dr. Fred, he said that he went
to him once and was nearly on the ceiling from the pain. But, he
fixed his leg problem in one session.

I'll take 10 minutes of torture to put bones back in place that were
seriously out of place any day. Besides, the follow up session this
afternoon wasn't more than 10 seconds (and really not painful like the
morning) if you don't count the 10 minutes of heat. Besides, the
afternoon session was nothing when compared to unracking (and
reracking...that's even more painful when the weight comes off) a
barbell...something I do at least a half a dozen times a week.

Glad it's working for you. I just wish I understood WHY it works.

Good luck in your meet.

D./G./whoever the hell I am this week

On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:40:05 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

John Hanson said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the month.
I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a neuromuscular
massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she tries to "align" me
that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political joke in
there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some accupuncture
to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going towards some
tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after it cropped up.
It pisses me off that my friends says this works, because I can't spot
chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when they claim to unblock it.

What do you think?

What do I think? My last chiro was recommended to me by a training
partner. I used him and never experienced one bit of pain during the
treatments. But, he never really helped me either. When I went to
the gym tonight and told Ron I went to Dr. Fred, he said that he went
to him once and was nearly on the ceiling from the pain. But, he
fixed his leg problem in one session.

I'll take 10 minutes of torture to put bones back in place that were
seriously out of place any day. Besides, the follow up session this
afternoon wasn't more than 10 seconds (and really not painful like the
morning) if you don't count the 10 minutes of heat. Besides, the
afternoon session was nothing when compared to unracking (and
reracking...that's even more painful when the weight comes off) a
barbell...something I do at least a half a dozen times a week.

Delenn said:

John Hanson said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me
if I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times
within about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me
to start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy
more bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the
month. I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a
neuromuscular massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she tries
to "align"
me that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political
joke in there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some
accupuncture to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going
towards some tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after
it cropped up. It pisses me off that my friends says this works,
because I can't spot chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when
they claim to unblock it.
What do you think?

Delenn

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂
--
-Larry

Larry Hodges said:

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂

I'll have you know that I'm not geeky enough to be in the movie theater
at midnight for the opening of Episode III.

Ignore the fact that I'm on usenet. I'm cool, I tell you, COOL!

(Okay, I confess, the only reasons I'm not at the movies right now is
that a kid has a huge standardized test tomorrow, plus I'm worried
losing that much sleep will hurt my triathlon training.)

What about you: are you going to see it?

Delenn

On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:56:40 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

John Hanson said:

What do I think? My last chiro was recommended to me by a training
partner. I used him and never experienced one bit of pain during the
treatments. But, he never really helped me either. When I went to
the gym tonight and told Ron I went to Dr. Fred, he said that he went
to him once and was nearly on the ceiling from the pain. But, he
fixed his leg problem in one session.

I'll take 10 minutes of torture to put bones back in place that were
seriously out of place any day. Besides, the follow up session this
afternoon wasn't more than 10 seconds (and really not painful like the
morning) if you don't count the 10 minutes of heat. Besides, the
afternoon session was nothing when compared to unracking (and
reracking...that's even more painful when the weight comes off) a
barbell...something I do at least a half a dozen times a week.

Glad it's working for you. I just wish I understood WHY it works.

I'm still speculating that everything is good to go now as I'm pretty
sore but, I had one of those back rib thingies pushed down on top of
another rib as well as a disk that was out of place. This was stuck
there so he needed to move all of those things back to where God
intended them to be. Plus, he needed to do this all at once because I
have a meet this weekend. So, being the fellow powerlifter that he
is, he obliged me by giving me the "emergency" treatment. He put
everything back in place, the pain be damned...I've got a meet.

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Good luck in your meet.

D./G./whoever the hell I am this week

Thanks, W!

BTW, he insists he sees me as soon as I come back. I think he
suspects what I suspect in that I'm probably going to dislocate those
ribs again this weekend. Go heavy or go home. Hehe.

On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:01:26 -0700, "Larry Hodges"
<[email hidden]> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

Delenn said:

John Hanson said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me
if I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times
within about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me
to start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy
more bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the
month. I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a
neuromuscular massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she tries
to "align"
me that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political
joke in there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some
accupuncture to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going
towards some tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after
it cropped up. It pisses me off that my friends says this works,
because I can't spot chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when
they claim to unblock it.
What do you think?

Delenn

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂

Hehe. Thanks!

John Hanson said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:56:40 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

Good luck in your meet.

D./G./whoever the hell I am this week

Thanks, W!

Yo. :-)

Quoted message said:

BTW, he insists he sees me as soon as I come back. I think he
suspects what I suspect in that I'm probably going to dislocate those
ribs again this weekend. Go heavy or go home. Hehe.

How about "go heavy AND go home." In one piece, preferably not in a
body bag. Then it's all good.

(But maybe I'm ascribing to you my own triathlon goals, which mostly
revolve around attempting to survive.)

Delenn

Delenn said:

Larry Hodges said:

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂

I'll have you know that I'm not geeky enough to be in the movie
theater at midnight for the opening of Episode III.

Ignore the fact that I'm on usenet. I'm cool, I tell you, COOL!

(Okay, I confess, the only reasons I'm not at the movies right now is
that a kid has a huge standardized test tomorrow, plus I'm worried
losing that much sleep will hurt my triathlon training.)

What about you: are you going to see it?

Delenn

Nah. I'll wait a week or two. I like Star Wars, but fell asleep in Episode
2. That was the crappiest of the Star Wars movies. It just didn't seem to
have a plot. Or maybe it was that everything kind of blended together.
Whatever...it sucked.
--
-Larry

John Hanson said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 21:01:26 -0700, "Larry Hodges"
<[email hidden]> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

Delenn said:

John Hanson wrote:
> The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it
> doesn't let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor
> today. He's Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the
> APF as a teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells
> me I have a rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He
> asks me when my next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early
> Friday. He asks me if I expect him to walk on water.
>
> So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
> kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
> kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what
> seemed like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly
> placed his other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way
> I feel it throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little
> different spot and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He
> cracked my back once more and then put my neck through it's paces,
> cracking it twice. The last time he yells, "there it is!" and says
> that's enough. Then tells me he wants to see me this afternoon.
>
> I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
> belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes.
> He then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times
> within about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".
>
> So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
> rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal
> up enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he
> told me to start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse
> to buy more bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the
month. I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a
neuromuscular massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she
tries to "align"
me that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political
joke in there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some
accupuncture to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going
towards some tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after
it cropped up. It pisses me off that my friends says this works,
because I can't spot chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when
they claim to unblock it.
What do you think?

Delenn

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂

Hehe. Thanks!

🙂

Hope the new chiro helps John. And good luck at the meet Saturday.
--
-Larry

On Thu, 19 May 2005 00:13:49 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

John Hanson said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:56:40 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

Good luck in your meet.

D./G./whoever the hell I am this week

Thanks, W!

Yo. :-)

Quoted message said:

BTW, he insists he sees me as soon as I come back. I think he
suspects what I suspect in that I'm probably going to dislocate those
ribs again this weekend. Go heavy or go home. Hehe.

How about "go heavy AND go home." In one piece, preferably not in a
body bag. Then it's all good.

(But maybe I'm ascribing to you my own triathlon goals, which mostly
revolve around attempting to survive.)

We didn't even address my shoulder much except that I thought it was
at about 90% right now. So basically, I'm handicapped in every single
lift. But, I'm more worried about an earthquake causing me to hitch a
deadlift than me doing major harm to my body by competing.

Delenn said:

John Hanson said:

The pain in my upper back is so bad now that 135 hurts and it doesn't
let up during the squat. So, I went to a new chiropractor today. He's
Dr. Fred Clary who also set a few world records in the APF as a
teenage (793 deadlift at 275 was one). Anywho, he tells me I have a
rib overlapping another and a disk out of place. He asks me when my
next meet is and I tell him I'm flying out early Friday. He asks me if
I expect him to walk on water.

So, he says he's going to be pretty rough on me today. He wasn't
kidding. I've never experiences so much pain for so long before. He
kept putting pressure on the spot I get the pain from for what seemed
like 10 minutes and he was pushing hard. Then he quickly placed his
other hand on my spine and cracks my back in such a way I feel it
throughout my back. He does the same thing in a little different spot
and then wammo, my whole back explodes again. He cracked my back once
more and then put my neck through it's paces, cracking it twice. The
last time he yells, "there it is!" and says that's enough. Then tells
me he wants to see me this afternoon.

I went back for more punishment this afternoon. He had my lay on my
belly and put heat on my upper back and neck for about 10 minutes. He
then came back and crunched my back and neck about 4 or 5 times within
about 10 seconds and said, "you're done".

So now I feel like I've been in a car accident but I don't have any
rib pain any more. Just some very sore muscles. I just hope I heal up
enough by Saturday that pain won't be an issue. Oh, and, he told me to
start doing high pulls. I guess that gives me an excuse to buy more
bumpers:-)

This sounds a bit like Mistress Krista's story in her rant of the month.
I tend to avoid that sort of pain. My mother's a neuromuscular
massage therapist and it hurts so bad every time she tries to "align" me
that I decided I prefer being non-aligned. (There's a political joke in
there somewhere.)

Why do you suppose chiro works? I'm considering doing some accupuncture
to release the "chi" and get the healing flow going towards some
tendonitis that just isn't healing some two years after it cropped up.
It pisses me off that my friends says this works, because I can't spot
chi and strongly suspect it's all whooey when they claim to unblock it.

What do you think?

I think your friends would also adore the King's (or was it the
Emperor's) new clothes as told by HCA!!

As Danny Kaye sang so wonderfully:

Look at the King, the King, the King, the King, the King,
The King was in the altogether......

John Hanson said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 23:56:40 -0400, Delenn <[email hidden]> wrote
in misc.fitness.weights:

Quoted message said:

John Hanson said:

What do I think? My last chiro was recommended to me by a training
partner. I used him and never experienced one bit of pain during the
treatments. But, he never really helped me either. When I went to
the gym tonight and told Ron I went to Dr. Fred, he said that he went
to him once and was nearly on the ceiling from the pain. But, he
fixed his leg problem in one session.

I'll take 10 minutes of torture to put bones back in place that were
seriously out of place any day. Besides, the follow up session this
afternoon wasn't more than 10 seconds (and really not painful like the
morning) if you don't count the 10 minutes of heat. Besides, the
afternoon session was nothing when compared to unracking (and
reracking...that's even more painful when the weight comes off) a
barbell...something I do at least a half a dozen times a week.

Glad it's working for you. I just wish I understood WHY it works.

I'm still speculating that everything is good to go now as I'm pretty
sore but, I had one of those back rib thingies pushed down on top of
another rib as well as a disk that was out of place. This was stuck
there so he needed to move all of those things back to where God
intended them to be. Plus, he needed to do this all at once because I
have a meet this weekend. So, being the fellow powerlifter that he
is, he obliged me by giving me the "emergency" treatment. He put
everything back in place, the pain be damned...I've got a meet.

Quoted message said:

Good luck in your meet.

D./G./whoever the hell I am this week

Thanks, W!

BTW, he insists he sees me as soon as I come back. I think he
suspects what I suspect in that I'm probably going to dislocate those
ribs again this weekend. Go heavy or go home. Hehe.

[censored] or bust JH - go for it!!

I hope you have a successful meet!! ;o)

Larry Hodges said:

Delenn said:

Larry Hodges said:

May the force be with you.

Sorry...just couldn't resist. 🙂

I'll have you know that I'm not geeky enough to be in the movie
theater at midnight for the opening of Episode III.

Ignore the fact that I'm on usenet. I'm cool, I tell you, COOL!

(Okay, I confess, the only reasons I'm not at the movies right now is
that a kid has a huge standardized test tomorrow, plus I'm worried
losing that much sleep will hurt my triathlon training.)

What about you: are you going to see it?

Delenn

Nah. I'll wait a week or two. I like Star Wars, but fell asleep in Episode
2. That was the crappiest of the Star Wars movies. It just didn't seem to
have a plot. Or maybe it was that everything kind of blended together.
Whatever...it sucked.

It really is a time for decisions, whether to queue to see the new
film or sit at home in the study and watch the grass grow.

I think on my skimpy knowledge of the past Star War 'fillems' that the
"grass" will win hands down!! ;o)