FItness Answer Man’s trip to the Chiropractor…

Today upon recommendation from my friend, and former client Scott Ford, I payed a visit to Dr. Eric Jones of Cumberland Valley Chiropractic in Hagerstown, MD. I’ve been frequently dealing with neck and back pain from years of weightlifting and wrestling, which notice gets worse with age (and more wrestling and weightlifting).

At one point, my neck was in such bad shape, the nerves had actually began to stop communicating with the muscles on the left side of upper body, and caused atrophy. That wasn’t good. Fortunately, one of my clients at the time was a physical therapist, and she worked with me to get me “back online” so I could get back to business as usual, you know, wrestling and weightlifting.

Well fast forward to 2009, and I tricked out my neck carrying some dumbells, and my arm gets to tingling. That tingle slowly began to turn into weakness. This time I decide to head it off before it begins again, so here’s where the story began, seeing Dr. Jones. My experience was more than I expected as Dr. Jones took his time to thoroughly explain what he believed was the cause of my problems, and walked me through his proposed treatment.

This isn’t going to be an advertisement for Dr. Jone’s practice, but I’m looking forward to working with him to finally get rid of this monkey I’ve been carrying for waaay too long.

If you have a treatable condition that’s keeping you from performing your best, handle that and get back in the game. Little injuries and “tweaks” tend to get worse over time, so don’t continue to blow them off. Physical Therapists, and Chiropractors can get to the source of what ails you and help correct the risidual effects so the same injuries don’t happen over and over again.

Take care of yourself, and look for an interview with Dr. Jones soon!

-c