Decompression Table Treatment for Serious Hip Pain

The uh problem that brought me to Dr.
Henrikson was a uh very serious pain in
my left hip. And I think as a result of
many years of doing a lot of heavy
lifting and from landscaping, being
doing a lot of chores around the house
by myself, that’s what brought me to his
office. And I think the cause of that
was many years of not sort of taking
care of myself and not taking care of
the soreness when it first occurred.
I’ve been having before I came to the
office, I was having that problem for
probably close to a month trying to uh
stretch it out without any success.
Well, the problem with this ongoing pain
is sometimes you sort of accept it as a
part of getting older, but actually it
kept me from doing the things I have to
do. I’m the caregiver for my elderly
husband. I have pets. We have a home
where I do all of the yard work. A lot
of that work was not getting done. a lot
of discomfort on my part in addition to
not being able to sleep well at night.
What I tried to do was um to try to use
my foam roller which I had from a
previous chiropractic uh visit doing
some stretching exercises using uh
topical analesics like Boofreeze and
occasional taking NSAIDs. On my first
visit uh with Dr. Dr. Henrikson, he did
took an X-ray which showed the spine
being compressed, had me doing treatment
on the decompression table and that has
helped to open up the spine and to take
a lot of the pressure off the discs.
After the decompression uh table, then I
come into the other part of the office
where Dr. Henrikson performs some spinal
adjustments. The results have been slow.
The way I think about it is that it’s
been many, many years of not taking care
of my spine properly. I would expect
then for the treatment to take as much
time as necessary to correct that lack
of treatment in the past. I’ve been able
to continue doing the work that I need
to do around the house, uh, walk my
dogs, do the grocery shopping, do the
yard work. Issues not completely
resolved. I’ve gotten this great degree
of relief. What I would say is to first
of all to give Dr. Henrikson all the
information about your lifestyle, about
your diet. Certainly give him some
detail about what’s been bothering you
and for how long. And also to be patient
with the treatment, knowing that it’s
going to take some time, especially, I
think, if you’re an older person, that
it will take some time to resolve and to
let him know in detail how you are doing
and what you find successful about the
treatment.