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- Good morning, Baltimore.
This is Dr. Jeff Kalkstein with
Drs. Adolph and Kalkstein Chiropractic obviously in Towson.
It's a Monday morning and Rita's with us.
I thought this was important to share with you.
I'll let Rita tell you her story a little bit.
She came to us August 22nd, and this is her,
she's had three visits with us so far,
so this will be her fourth visit.
So Rita, tell us your story a little bit.
- Well, I had a shoulder pain.
It's been like a year and a half I've had shoulder pain.
So I go to a wonderful doctor of mine.
I actually had a torn rotator cuff in my right arm,
and Dr. Walich repaired it.
A year later, April of last year,
I started hurting in my left shoulder,
but it presented a little bit differently.
I had pain sideways instead of front.
Long story short, I had a couple cortisone shots,
and he encouraged me to get an MRI.
I'm a little claustrophobic, so I didn't.
But then he said, physical therapy will definitely help you.
So I've been doing physical therapy
for, gosh, eight months straight,
maybe once, twice a week.
I did the exercises at home.
Even a longer story short,
I was still not sleeping at night,
keeping my three daughters awake,
my husband awake, the dog, it was a nightmare.
I was referred to Dr. Jeff by a friend of mine.
I was desperately seeking massage at Renaissance.
She referred me to Dr. Jeff.
I've been here for three visits.
I'm sleeping again.
I feel like this is like-
- And her husband's going to keep her
for a few more years, right? - It's wonderful.
I can move my arms.
I can sleep at night.
It's made a huge difference.
- So we examined Rita, and basically what we found was
she had, in her neck one of the facet joints
wasn't moving properly and it was irritating a nerve.
We did a simple adjustment to her neck
and it really gave her quite a bit of relief.
Rita knows her body.
She's a nurse.
What was your field of specialty?
- Trauma, ICU, CCU, ER.
I took so many classes in holistic health.
But my husband is an anesthesiologist.
Somehow in Georgetown they must have told them
that chiropractors are voodoo.
Don't go.
You'll end up needing a neurosurgeon.
I went to University of Maryland Nursing School,
and they said they same thing.
Be careful, be careful.
It had this like, you know,
like a very negative impression.
So I came here and my husband's like, "Be careful."
I don't know.
I'm living proof that I'm pain free.
I'm not pain free completely.
I still ache a tiny bit.
I can sleep at night.
- But that's only after three visits,
and we haven't even started to get her
on her rehab for her neck problem, right?
What's important is that this happens out there periodically
where you get negative feedback from different people
who've never really actually tried chiropractic.
Because chiropractic is simple, it works,
it's cost effective, right?
- Right.
- So what we do, go ahead and face me
this way a little bit, Rita.
No turn your head this way to the left.
Now back to the right, all the way.
Any discomfort either way?
- No.
No.
Now look straight ahead at me.
No bend your head backwards, all the way back.
Go back further.
Does that hurt at all when you do that?
- No.
- Now come over this way a little bit.
Lean back into that.
Any discomfort right there?
- A tiny bit, yeah.
- Tiny bit right there, yeah.
So let's have you up on the table.
I'll show you how simple the adjustment is, right?
- And I haven't been able to work out for a year.
- Yes.
- So my arms were like 90-year-old lady's.
It's hard.
- It impacted your life.
- Yeah, picking up the dog even.
He's a tiny, 8-pound Bijon.
- You couldn't pick that baby up?
- I did, but it was like with a leg and an arm.
- Let me have your hands over your head for me.
Just pull you back up here a little bit.
- Sorry.
Yes, and I gained weight, too.
- Oh, that's the worst part - A lot.
- Of the whole thing.
Lift your head up for me a little bit,
and come back down again, all right?
What I'm doing right now is I'm just trying to find
that one area in her neck that's not moving very well.
There it is, right there.
- Yes.
- So the correction is very simple.
- Ow. - There you go.
Very nice, very nice.
So eight months orthopedic.
- Two cortisone shots.
- Two cortisone shots, PT for eight months.
Not only that, she did her homework.
They told her to do exercise, and she actually did it.
Did the exercise help at all?
- No, it aggravated it.
- It aggravated it, right, right.
Probably because maybe they were working on
the wrong condition.
But there you go.
This is her fourth visit with us,
and she's feeling significantly better, right?
- Yes, yes, a lot, a lot better.
- So if you get that feedback, that push back,
that chiropractic doesn't work,
give us a call if you have a question.
Again, it's Dr. Jeff Kalkstein with
Drs. Adolph and Kalkstein.
Rita.
Oh, the therapist who referred her to us
was also one of our patients, right?
- Yeah, Theresa.
- Theresa, yeah, yeah. - She was wonderful.
She was like, oh, couldn't say enough.
- Theresa was involved in a car accident
and had gone to different chiropractors,
different PTs, was getting no help.
She came here, and she was a little bit more complicated,
and we did some really neat stuff with her
with dry needling, and some active release,
and exercises.
- Yeah, she's like, "Go see Dr. Jeff."
I'm like, "Okay, I guess."
I was hurting so much, I mean,
I didn't know what to expect, really,
with a chiropractor either, kind of.
- So the results have been-
- Wonderful.
- Wonderful. - Yes.
- Baltimore, have a wonderful week.
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