People often book in after a friend or colleague has recommended KH Chiropractic Cranbrook. They may have been to multiple practitioners and become frustrated wondering ‘Do I have to live with this pain forever?’ or they didn’t even know where to get help. Sometimes it’s shocking to hear how much discomfort people are ‘living with’, when their complaint can be successfully treated or managed. At KH Chiropractic we work with people to establish a diagnosis and ensure they get the care they need. Although our main interest is back pain, neck pain and other musculoskeletal pain we also help guide people to the correct practitioner so they get the help they need. Chiropractor’s receive extensive training to know when they can help and if not where to refer them. It’s about getting people the correct care as quickly as possible.

Sometimes people have suffered for months or even years with pain, which could have responded to Chiropractic care. Like anything when you have the knowledge and skills to fix it, life’s so much easier. But, when you don’t know who to turn too, or come across the wrong healthcare professional, you can quickly become lost, and give up hope. Questioning:

‘Do I have to live with this forever?’ 

This can lead to a cascade of secondary feelings making the overall experience ten times worse! 

So much rides on you finding the right practitioner. That practitioner may not even treat you but direct you towards the correct person to deal with your complaint, which is worth its weight in gold if you reach resolution quicker. Generally the quicker the resolution the better the outcome.

Recently I witnessed someone not being referred to the correct practitioner when they had a number of concerning sign and symptoms.

Symptoms included:

• Excruciating facial tingling and numbness
• Sleep ranging from 30minutes – 3hours in total per night
• Low mood
• Palpable lump in the neck

I immediately referred this patient to his GP, who sent him on for urgent scans. While this was going on I provided him with some advice on rest and recovery. It’s vital when fighting illness or recovering from injury that we maximise our resting potential, particularly good sleep as this is when the body can prioritise recovery / healing.

So what changes did we introduce to help promote best rest and recovery?

Staggeringly within 2 days he was sleeping through the night again (honestly this was a better response than I expected!). Honestly, I’m not sure which of these helped, or if there’s a link to knowing the scan is in sight, or all of the above. That doesn’t matter, the good thing is he’s getting some sleep and restoring, to battle what lies ahead.

Never suffer in silence!