Cracking

A local spine clinic were doing a special consultation offer, and the long and the short of it is, I'm seeing a chiropractor.

The stupid part is, I don't know why I never went to one sooner. And since Ive been going, I've sort of started converting others to the back cracking religion.(I ought to get commission for this)

Being a life long, undiagnosed- until recently sleep Apnea suffer- (basically I stop breathing while I'm asleep starving my brain of oxygen and causing sleep deprivation.) Not to mention the weakness in my right side and stiffness in my upperback.

I accepted that diagnosis, and the necessity to wear a breathing CPAP(looks like CRAP I know) machine for the rest of my life.

Wrong.

Turns out, among other things, the vertebra in my neck are misaligned, changing the shape of my throat causing it to close while I'm asleep.

To quote my chiropractor, Apnea is actually a medial term for something doctors don't know the cause for.

This is so typical of the NHS and most health services. About six years ago I saw this clip you tube, it was an animation highlighting the fixation with only treating symptoms not cures.

The animation crudely illustrated this using driving a car as a metaphor. In short, a town decided to reduce accidents(disease) by preventing skid marks(the symptom) on the road by covering the road in Teflon. In the process removing all the stop lights (the cause, American roads). Unsurprisingly the people making the decisions were also owners of the car repair shops so they had a vested interest in accidents occurring.

Like the NHS, quite happy to dish out pain killers to mask the symptoms rather the address the under line issues.

A simple x-ray of my neck could of identified the cause of my Apnea.

But instead, people like me, and people worst off. People like my brother with a slipped disk who's unable to work and is currently having his rent paid for by the state and is on incapacity. will probably never be able to support himself again, costing the state 16k a year just in housing benefit.

But for the price of 24 sessions- about £700. He can be cured and a productive member of society.

So why why why?! doesn't the NHS refer those type of maladies to specialists like chiropractors let alone offer the service themselves?!? A chiropractor is not a form of alternative medicine, it is medicine. I myself read the tarot and practice Reiki, helping and guiding people on a spiritual path.

I look at all those people with back 'ache' who sponge off the state, who, instead of paying for private investigators to follow them costing thousands; for £30, send them to a chiropractor and prove they don't have a problem!!

That's my rant for the day...