If somebody approached me on the street and said, "pay me $40 and I'll push your bones around until something in your body makes a loud popping sound," I would more than likely decline the offer. This is also how I'd react if a person walked up and offered to shove a bunch of needles into my skin for $50. I don't like the abrupt jolt of high speed bone movement chiropractors promote, and acupuncture makes me feel like there's a mean ghost stabbing me with plastic toothpicks.
Desperation led me to Dr. Corey Piva at the Pleasant Hill Chiropractic Office a few weeks ago, when I noticed my body had decided to suddenly fall apart overnight. I was unable to rotate my head, bend over, or basically do anything more complex than merely exist. Dr. Piva was super-nice and listened to all the dumb crap I had to say. Then he hooked me up to a machine which electrocuted my back for 20 minutes. If you were to see me and offer to electrocute my back for $40, I'd say you were too late; I already paid a professional back-electrocutioner for the same service.
Dr. Piva helped me regain the general form and posture of a human being over the next few days, and his popping and snapping sessions didn't freak me out at (unlike all previous chiropractors). His entire office is full of overtly nice, friendly people who politely laugh when they think I'm telling a joke. His adjustments have truly helped me, even though I'll never let him or anybody else shove hundreds of tiny needles into my skull. read more
