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I began chiropractic care in October. A low back pain that made it difficult to stand up straight refused to leave for four days, scaring the hell out of me. Within two weeks of beginning chiropractic care the pain was totally eliminated, and in another month or so I began to feel an agility I’d known ten years before. I was ecstatic. These results were at the edge of my highest hopes for chiropractic. Since then, the robust health I took for granted in my teens and early twenties has been returning.
The most startling development of chiropractic care, however, began more slowly. My wife, Wendy, and I have tried for the past seven years to have a child. After two years of no luck, we began infertility tests. There is only one test for men – semen analysis/sperm count – and mine was abysmally low: 10 million/cc. I was told the normal range is 50-65 million, and that it was unlikely I would ever father a child naturally with that low of a sperm count. I went to a urologist who said I had nothing correctable except possibly the residue of a prostate infection I’d had several years before, and he gave me some medication for that.
A few months later, In June, I went in for a second analysis. This one was not much better, at 15 mil/cc. Neither my doctor, nor Wendy’s gynecologist, Dr. Streitfeld, knew of anything else that could increase the count (I guess oysters won’t do it), so the emphasis switched to making sure Wendy was O.K. Meanwhile, I had periodic analyses that left Dr. Streitfeld scratching his head and skeptical. The first test after beginning chiropractic care showed a count of 55 million/cc. I was normal! That gave us renewed hope. The next, several months later, was an unbelievable 88 million/cc, a high normal. Shortly thereafter, Wendy underwent surgery to correct endometriosis and Dr. Streitfeld said our best chance to conceive would be in the year following the operation. A year later, we still had no baby. So Dr. Streitfeld asked me to go in one more time, and if the report was positive, he’d believe it. That analysis produced a result of 187 million/cc, nearly triple high normal. A month later our baby, due this month was conceived.
For my part, I credit chiropractic. The coincidence of the beginning of my chiropractic care and the steadily improving lab reports is obvious enough. And – there are even better reasons to consider chiropractic responsible.
First, chiropractic is the logical reason for the dramatic change. (Incidentally, the other factors of the analyses, abnormal forms and motility, also improved radically and consistently.) Chiropractic frees blocks in the spine, which houses the primary conduit of the central nervous system, the spinal cord. It seems reasonable to assume that when a block is released, the affected area will respond. Second, there’s no other place to put the credit. I had no significant change in lifestyle, diet, exercise regimen, or recreation. Even the vitamins I take have remained basically the same.
I now have an active life, and by practicing the chiropractic exercises I need only monthly adjustments. I have the energy I had at age 30 (fortunate for a man 42 about to have his first child) and at least double the endurance I had previously for the intense concentration my field, music requires.
There are no words left in this superlative-saturated society that have the impact I seek to express my gratitude for chiropractic and Dr. Hamilton. So I’ll say simply, Thank you! for saving the quality of my life.
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