Re: need cushion shoes - for my neck !!!

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:45:30 -0600, "Spoon2001"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>This was 10 years ago, I was training for a marathon.  I was doing 15-milers
>when I started noticing pain.  Then I started having this excruciating pain
>down my left arm, particularly in my shoulders.  Even with the pain, I still
>ran on the hard road! Little did I know I was pulverizing what was left of
>that disk - C5-C6 I think it was.  They replaced it with bone from my hip.
>
>At least one other neck disk is bulging a bit.  So I have to be easy on it!
>
>Not sure why this happened - just built that way I guess.
>
>Also a bit of scoliosis and one leg is definitely shorter than the other.
>My left hip is about an inch lower than my right!  I think this is why it
>feels like I have to do all the work with my left leg, and can't get much
>push off the right.
>
>You can imagine I am happy to be able to run at all!
>

You are a CLASSIC case of someone badly in need of chiropractic care.
Every symptom you list just SCREAMS chiro. All of these things can be
corrected, or I guarantee you'll only get worse and worse.
My story with chiros goes back to when I was 18YO and hurt my back at
work lifting 180lb machines in a bakery. So I got relief from chiros
after dr's did nothing but give me pain pills. Years later I thought
going to the chiro was just too much bother, and combined with time
constraints and finances hurting I stopped going. A few years later
after getting gradually worse, I finally tore a disk in l4/l5. Oh not
your usual tear, it's fragmented with a free floating fragment (out of
the outer compartment, and freely floating as the name implies). I
have permanent nerve damage in my outer two toes on my left leg, and
the muscles in the back of my leg from knee to ankle are also numb.
Some days it's not even noticeable, others it's unbearable, all
depending where the fragments moved too. Fourteen MD's (including
workmens comp dr's that are paid to say you are ok) all unanamously
said I'd never return to work again. So now I'm disabled. 
Is this what you want? Because if you don't get it fixed it is your
future, I absolutely guarantee this! Find a qualified chiro,
preferably an old guy whose been around 20 years or so. Get a clear
schedule of how he expects your visits to go, and how long you will
need care. Usually you can be fixed to where no visits are required,
other people with long-time problems like myself need maintaince vists
periodically. Curently I go when I feel the need, once to 6 times a
year. Go now.
TheBillRodgers