@linettefoley Hello and I wanted to welcome you to Connect. I would agree that Chiropractors may not be good idea when you have had prior spine surgery and have had further spinal degeneration. When discs are collapsing or have herniated, that represents weakness in the fibrous wall of the disc. You don't really know how weak it is or if any forced shifting of the spine could accelerate further weakness or displacement of vertebrae. If you have instability, shifting the spine can be dangerous if it causes vertebrae to shift and contact the spinal cord or the nerve roots between the vertebrae. I would guess that your surgeon who is planning your surgery to stabilize your spine may not want anyone messing with it. I had my C5/C6 disc rupture, and all I had to do to make that happen was turn my head. It had been bulging for years, and eventually weakened, then ruptured. This event caused bone spurs to grow trying to stabilize the spine, and it started pressing into my spinal cord. I had surgery and have this level fused.