“CHIROPRACTIC GAVE ME MY LIFE BACK!”
Vol. 3 Issue 56
CASE STUDY:
“In March of 1997 I was a passenger in a Suburban that was T-Boned on my side by a car doing 92 miles per hour. The jaws of life were used to pry me from the car. Ihad suffered a full 4th degree anterior clavical separation, a cracked rib and a concussion which put me in and out of the hospital with vertigo and other complications. “I had to move to Washington D.C. shortly after the accident. I barely remember the four-day drive, other than crying a lot, not being able to put my own hair in a pony-tail and my husband having to bathe me.
“I was unable to work during the first month in our new apartment. I decided to take myself off of the steroids I was prescribed, which were making my body swell, and the pain killers, because they made me feel completely absent from life. But still I sat alone in our apartment. Icouldn’t drive. I couldn’t walk far or take deep breaths because of the cracked rib. It felt like my brain was dying. Iknew I had to get moving and the insurance money was running out. What kind of job would I apply for in the shape I was in? I needed help.
“Then I met Dr. Nancy MacKenzie, D.C. I had gone with a friend who said she had helped her with some lifelong digestive problems. As I watched my friend get her adjustment, I thought, “How can she help me when I can’t even bear to be touched where I hurt? And what does chiropractic have to do with digestive problems, anyway?
“I learned a lot from Dr. MacKenzie that year. I learned about referral pain and how her trigger point and muscle work could help the rest of my body. She taught me how my everyday life could be physical therapy; ironing, going up and down the stairs, walking to a nearby grocery store… Soon, I could climb three flights of stairs carrying laundry baskets, and I was excited just to be able to hang clothes again.
“Dr. MacKenzie continued to work on me and guide my recovery. I needed someone to tell me that all the writhing, sweating and ‘doing’ would slowly pay off. It did.
“I was finally working again and ultimately offered a job to manage theAlternative Healing Clinic Ihad been going to for my chiropractic care. My life was changed.
“Because of the chiropractic treatment Ireceived, I did not have the surgery on my shoulder, which amazed the original doctors I had seen. I have full rotation of my arm! I continue to work in chiropractic after yet another move, with Dr. Burke Mays. I am his Public Relations CA (PRCA). My headaches are now only periodic. Dr. Mays has cleared away a lot of the adhesions around my rib cage.
“Just last month I woke up and realized I was pain-free! I was so amazed. Chiropractic gave me my life back! Iride horses and have picked up golf again. I exercise regularly and lift weights.
“As a PRCA, I love telling others that chiropractic can change their lives. It’s safe, and it works!— the understatement of my lifetime.”
— Sara Jane Hampton
SOURCE: Sara Jane Hampton, Burke Mays, D.C., Watertown Family Chiropractic, Watertown, MN, April 1999.