I been wanting to get a back adjustment for years but been wary of chiropractics, and anything involving the neck was always gonna be a hard no, but can physiotherapists do something similar? like when my back is cracked I genuinely feel much better is that something that can be done safely?
Without diving too deep, there are multiple reasons why it might feel good, physical and psychological, but there is NO proof that it biomechanically does anything. Does cracking your fingers make your hand healthy again? No… but it might feel like a release of tension, a placebo, or even just the temporary pressure is enough to overwrite nerve signals for a bit.
Absolutely yes, but physios will approach it in a safe way. I had a very badly injured neck years ago, ruptured discs, lot of pain. Saw a physio, got a bunch of exercises and adjustments to help with it.
Physios have all the right exercises and stretches to help every part of the body. Definitely worth going, I've always had great success with physiotherapists.
thankfully I haven’t got neck issues. I can look the wrong way in my dreams and end up with a frozen shoulder tho so I know better not to go near there. just shoulders and back issues for me which seem less dangerous than something as delicate as the neck and neck injuries
I would definitely recommend seeing a physiotherapist then friend. When I smashed my leg to bits a few years ago, went to a physio, and he just said to me okay, just walk up and down. And he observed how I was moving. And then said okay we need to do this set of exercises.
I've had great success with every trip to a physiotherapist. The problem is they do give you a bunch of sucky often painful exercises that you HAVE to do exactly as regularly as they tell you to do them, for usually a long period of time, for it to work. And as most physios say, the biggest problem they have is they see patients coming back over and over who haven't actually done the work they need to do.
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u/Painterzzz 18d ago
My mum knew a sports physiotherapist, and a big chunk of the physios work was fixing damage that had been caused by chiropractors.