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I went to the chiropractor today to get the massive kink out of my neck that’s causing me all this pain and stiffness since Tuesday morning. After some pleasant but mostly ineffective physical therapy to loosen my knotted muscles, my chiropractor tried to do little delicate adjustment on my neck. And for the first time in years doing this to my neck, something went wrong. Major spasms-of-pain kind of wrong.

Still, he’s a very good chiropractor and immediately put me in manual traction to reduce the stress and spasm. And then he wrapped my neck in a large ice pack to reduce any swelling. It worked well enough so I could make it home. He even gave me that ice pack to take with me.

So it’s lots of ice, Advil, and cheap muscle-relaxing wine for me for awhile. But I’m going back to visit my chiropractor on Friday morning. I still trust him. And I know he felt horrible that he couldn’t fix me up right away like he usually does.