At the very best, a chiropractor will just be an over priced massage therapist with some basic sports medicine stuff. At the worst they'll fuck you up in ways that shouldn't be possible.
Like, literally, knots do form in muscles in places that its just easier to work out by having somebody else do the rubbing. So 100% useful if can stand people rubbing you and hurting you at the same time.
idk if it was a knot in the muscle or what but I had chronic leg pain in my right calf that literally lasted for over a year and would keep me up at night, not like super painful but just always noticeable, centered around what felt like a golf ball sized area in the center of my calf, until I fucking rubbed and squeezed the everloving fuck out of it and it hurt so fucking bad like an 8/10 (10/10 is probably appendix almost exploding because my parents didn't want to listen to middle school me shouting "take me to the fucking hospital" until a nurse friend told them to) but then it finally went away forever except now I have a similar pain in my left calf and I really hate it
part of me was worried it was a blood clot or something but hey I didn't die of an embolism so score one for me ayyyyy
I had a similar issue when I threw my back out. I think it might have had something to do with the sciatic nerves that were being fucked by my slightly slipped disk. After I got to the point that my pack pain wasn't so insane the knot in my calf was less but still needed some deep tissue massaging to get the muscle to loosen up.
At the very best, a chiropractor will just be an over priced massage therapist with some basic sports medicine stuff. At the worst they'll fuck you up in ways that shouldn't be possible.
Just go to a massage therapist. I don't even know if massage therapy is real or bullshit but presumably you'll get a nice massage out of it.
Like, literally, knots do form in muscles in places that its just easier to work out by having somebody else do the rubbing. So 100% useful if can stand people rubbing you and hurting you at the same time.
They're actually having trouble reproducing a lot of he findings about trigger points right now lol
Chiropractors or massage therapists?
Massage therapists and doctors of osteopathy (since they both use that particular therapy)
idk if it was a knot in the muscle or what but I had chronic leg pain in my right calf that literally lasted for over a year and would keep me up at night, not like super painful but just always noticeable, centered around what felt like a golf ball sized area in the center of my calf, until I fucking rubbed and squeezed the everloving fuck out of it and it hurt so fucking bad like an 8/10 (10/10 is probably appendix almost exploding because my parents didn't want to listen to middle school me shouting "take me to the fucking hospital" until a nurse friend told them to) but then it finally went away forever except now I have a similar pain in my left calf and I really hate it
part of me was worried it was a blood clot or something but hey I didn't die of an embolism so score one for me ayyyyy
I had a similar issue when I threw my back out. I think it might have had something to do with the sciatic nerves that were being fucked by my slightly slipped disk. After I got to the point that my pack pain wasn't so insane the knot in my calf was less but still needed some deep tissue massaging to get the muscle to loosen up.