Comments on: Massage versus back popping http://www.letterneversent.com/massage-versus-back-popping/1623/ Tell me when to go. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: susan http://www.letterneversent.com/massage-versus-back-popping/1623/#comment-12764 susan Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:17:18 +0000 http://www.letterneversent.com/?p=1623#comment-12764 I think a really good massage should stay with you for a while afterwards. Maybe yours was just too short or somehow not effective enough. I wouldn't know firsthand, though. A chiropractor probably wouldn't pop your back--they'd probably tell you to stop popping it yourself! That's what happened when Steve saw a chiropractor a while back. The guy said that some of Steve's vertebrae were seized up, so he was compensating by popping his back, which made other parts of his back hypermobile and kind of evened things out. He wanted Steve to stop popping entirely and get some gradual treatments to get the seized-up parts working again. I think it was a real, valid diagnosis and not just an attempt to get Steve to pay for more treatments, because he seemed very legitimate / on the up-and-up. I think a really good massage should stay with you for a while afterwards. Maybe yours was just too short or somehow not effective enough. I wouldn’t know firsthand, though.

A chiropractor probably wouldn’t pop your back–they’d probably tell you to stop popping it yourself! That’s what happened when Steve saw a chiropractor a while back. The guy said that some of Steve’s vertebrae were seized up, so he was compensating by popping his back, which made other parts of his back hypermobile and kind of evened things out. He wanted Steve to stop popping entirely and get some gradual treatments to get the seized-up parts working again. I think it was a real, valid diagnosis and not just an attempt to get Steve to pay for more treatments, because he seemed very legitimate / on the up-and-up.

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