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I’ve been in two severe car accidents, one near fatal because of the lack of seat belts. Naturally I was violently thrown into the windshield of each vehicle smashing them with my forehead. Because it was so hard, my spinal column was compressed, causing misalignment in three disk. One in the neck, in between the shoulder blades and one in the lower lumbar area. The one in the neck causes me the most trouble because you move your head so much. I’ve lost feeling in my arms, legs and neck because the spinal cord goes threw them. The first accident happened in 1977, the other 1999 and my spine has been the cause of pain and numbness. I think your problem happened from the hard shock of your feet hitting the rotating thread and shooting up your spine and pinching the nerve in the neck, causing the numbness. Then when your neck disks realigned again, it stopped pinching the spinal cord and solved your problem. If it happens again, you should see your doctor or a chiropractor to make sure the disk that caused the pinch isn’t damaged like mine was and often cracked when turning my head a certain way.
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@becky1024 I wanted to respond to your post because I am a cervical spine surgery patient. I had a whiplash about 20 twenty years ago, that later down the road led to the C5/C6 disc rupturing into my spinal cord and also caused bone spurs to grow there along side it and all of it was compressing my spinal cord. The surprising thing, is it took very little to rupture a weakened disc after all those years. I was stretching my neck by turning my head and it popped with a sound, and suddenly my head turned a bit more. If a chiropractor makes a spinal adjustment to a person like this, there is a high risk of injury to the person. Injuries like this also cause instability that can cause the bones of the vertebrae to contact the spinal cord if there is a force applied to them, or even just by changing the position of the neck depending on how bad the instability is. That alone is a reason to really consider if a chiropractor is a good choice at all when a person has had spine injuries. Chiropractors can't fix a structural spine problem or a collapsed disc, and if a person's spinal discs are not strong enough or intact enough to hold the spine in place, a chiropractor's manipulations can cause an injury. Keep in mind that a severe spine injury can cause permanent paralysis and disabilities.
Have you sought medical care from a surgical spine specialist about your spine injuries? Things change over the years and a condition can become a lot worse. Are you still dealing with loss of feeling in your arms, legs and neck?
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I certainly wouldn't rely on a chiropractor for such an issue.
My first thought (wholly non-professional) would be to want my carotid arteries checked under care of a cardiologist