I'm home with Caleb right now. I should be working at one of my jobs, but it was so much more important to get him checked out today.
This is what's going on: Caleb's neck has been in pain for a while, he has complained off and on and tries to crack it himself even though we tell him not to. Yesterday he had a major muscle spasm in his neck and couldn't move it to one side.
Today early I called the chiropractor right away. Got him in to be x-rayed. I really trust this chiropractor over any doctor I've ever seen (never thought I'd say that) However I knew our family doctor would only give us pain meds, then send us to a specialist and then what? I've been that route for my back and I always end up back at the chiropractor.
Well I knew the chiro would start helping us today and sure enough he x-rayed and did a full exam. Turns out Caleb has a serious neck condition called Torticolis.
This is a lateral deformaty in the neck. Or otherwise called Wry neck. This means his neck is twisted and stuck or locked up in one position. The chiropractor worked with Caleb's neck for over an hour. Had him in a laying position and massaged and moved his neck. At the end of this painful appointment, Caleb can move his neck to both sides and he couldn't do this earlier, he was in tons of pain. He now has to ice several times a day and will be seen again on Monday.
I'm so glad I took him in. Had I let this go he could have had a deformed neck by age 20 and then had major issues. In the x-ray his neck at the bottom starts to curve like normal, then stops at a point and then goes the wrong direction forward looks so bad on the x-ray that I noticed it.
Wish Caleb luck in his recovery, he is sore right now and will be for a while.
I need to run him back to school now, he just got done icing.
6 comments:
Sorry, Caleb. Good luck to all of you on figuring out how to deal with this! --Jen
Wow! K is too young to have problems that need a chiro.
I sure hope he gets better. I assume that good treatment can fix things instead of just fo a temporary pain fix. I hope so.
How long has this been happening? I have never heard of it before this post.
Get better soon. K is the standard bearer for the grandkids. Got to have him well and progressing!
Dad Clark
I hope Caleb recovers too. That sounds awful. I'm so sorry. Like dad said, is it just a temporary fix or will this fix it for good?
After many chiropractor visits, it will be a permanent fix. The bones, along with everything around the bones need to be shifted to new places, which is why the appointments will take extra long and why he will need many appointments. He will also have physical therapy to help strengthen his neck once it's in the new position.
After the process is done the chiropractor is going to take new x-rays to show me how the bones have moved to the right places. Caleb does have to stop cracking his own neck and he has to stop sleeping on two pillows, because of those two things he aggravated the situation and made his neck worse.
That's craziness! Good luck to Caleb. It's hard to break the habit of cracking your neck, back, knuckles...all of which I crack myself. Very bad habits. I'm glad to hear they have a solution. Does your health insurance cover chiro visits? I don't know if tricare does. That would be nice if it did.
Lindsey
Employee's of the University often refer to our employment as wearing golden handcuffs. We are not paid all that incredibly well but we do have excellent benefits which makes it hard to quit and look for other employment that would pay better. My insurance does cover Chiropractic care - thank heavens.
We have been very blessed that our family has been very healthy. We have really had nothing worse that broken bones. I am certainly not going to complain about something as relatively benign as this. Well, I might, but I really don't mean it.
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