In 2017 I had lower back pain, so bad I could not go to the mall or even grocery shopping without sitting down after five minutes and quit golfing for three months. My Villages doctor sent me for an MRI at Lake Imaging. They said, I had a degenerative L1 thru L-5. My doctor said you're a good candidate for fusion surgery, let me refer you to a back surgeon in Ocala.
I said let me try a couple of alternatives. At the time I saw a big ad in the Daily Sun by Legacy Chiropractic at Laurel Manor. I read reviews on TOTV and they had many glowing reviews. So I called and went in for a consultation. They actually pulled my MRI up on a TV monitor from the Lake Imaging website and showed me my problems, no cartilage between my vertebrate. He discussed they have a ten week, 30 session plan for my situation for $3300 or if I paid all up front, only $3,000. This included nutrients and a cushion that I sit on at home.
I said, I'll give you $1500 for half the sessions and at the halfway point, if I feel improvement I'll continue and if not, I'm quitting. I had gone 2-1/2 weeks and 8 sessions and I noticed they had charged my credit card another $1500 without mentioning it to me. I thought I had paid for up to five weeks, I called and spoke to the chiropractor, he tried hard to convince me I was making progress and it would take the entire ten weeks. I told him to cancel me out and I want a refund.
They switched to accounting, who said, the form I signed had given them permission to automatically charge for additional sessions. Anyway, I got a check a couple of weeks later for $1500, even though I didn't feel my original $1500 was even fully used.
I thought acupuncture or inversion table. I read many good things about an inversion table and it was Christmas time in 2017 and I saw a Teeter Inversion Table on sale for $250 at Dick's Sporting Goods in Ocala. I went and purchased the table and used it about five minutes a day and after about four to five weeks all my pain went away. Now three years later the pain is still gone and I use it just maybe 2 or 3 minutes a day.
A word of caution, this has been discussed on TOTV before, a few others have said they tried an inversion table and had no luck. Same with MVP Gym where I go, I know two fellows who tried it there because of my recommendation and neither said it worked. I think many of those are using it just a few times and don't like being inverted and quit, or don't give it enough time. What needs to be done is to start out slowly with the feet just slightly higher than the head, then each week move the inversion a few inches more. I still don't go completely inverted, I use about 170 degrees instead of 180, and that plenty of stretch for me.
You can find inversion tables on TOTV about once a month for sale, anywhere from $50 to $100, or brand new lesser name brands on Amazon or eBay for $100 to $150. I just wanted a Teeter because I wanted something that looked nice and professional since it would be sitting in my home all the time, and I see them on HSN and QVC all the time, so I know they are quality. This one is identical to mine, it's $329, but like I said I got it on sale for $250.
In 2017 I also started taking Glucosamine twice a day, I purchase these from Walmart.
I did get one bit of information from the chiropractor. They gave me one of these cushions, which I sit on every morning while reading the newspaper for the past 3-1/2 years. I don't know if it's helping, but it does loosen your back and if it's working, I'm not changing.
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