Hello I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg. I'm a chiropractor in Cumming, Georgia and I
have patient here Bradford Edge and we just like to talk to you for a few
minutes we'd like to ask him some questions just for other people to see
what chiropractic can do that it's not just about back pain so this is Bradford
thank you very much do you want to just tell us in your own words what you had going
on what you had tried before you came here and and what you noticed when you
when we started working on you sure I have avascular necrosis which is a
degeneratinging of the bone I got an injury in the military we really did not
find out how I received his injury I went through two surgeries a
decompression surgery done. Then they removed the decompression stem they put
in my leg and I pretty much been with pain every single day over the past 17
years. And every day became crutches cane or walker and I'm only 38 years old now I can't go
to a restaurant carrying my train without having someone to help me when
we would go to grocery stores I don't do a lot of walking I finally have to
sit down once again because too much walking it just too much pain on
me if I sit down too long it's too much pain. I met Dr. Ekberg been coming here
ever since for about a little over a month and now about six weeks and I've
never felt this good in the past 17 years I'm able to move and get out and
enjoy my family that I could not do 17 years so I really appreciate everything he's done.
Do you want to start telling us how you heard about us
My wife told me about her friend, a doctor, that helped her daughter out so well so
I was like sure let's try and I realized there was an hour's drive but after
coming at one time that I will became a five minute
drive easily so our drive here is worth it. if anybody that had the pain that
they want to get rid of that you cannot be too far away what did you notice
right after the first adjustment after the first adjustment I could even me I
was pain free immediately I mean I was literally pain free I was able to do
certain movements with make that I wasn't able to do just as simple things
is just tying my shoe. I seen Dr. Ekberg on a Friday that Saturday i was at the
park playing on my kids pain free and that Sunday when i normally would have
pain after a big day with my kids i'm usually shut down completely the very
next day it wasn't a case you're like a brand new day all over again I could do
more things again so just one session one session I saw years come right
back to my life in one session. can you just stand up for us and show us that. if
i can finally lift my right leg up straight without going out here usually
I like to go out ahead and lift my leg up now I just take it straight straight
up straight up I can do this now I couldn't do that at all and it because
of the pain in the areas that and that it comes from is like because it's all
over the whole right side I'm a whole right leg and just just that one
movement allows me to tie my shoe walk when the with less pain and the be able
to bend over and pick my kids up and not have a lot of pain if you been to a
restaurant and you haven't been able to hold a tray right that that that brings
the picture off the people oh yeah it is I wish my kids could be going to let
them tell you their version for me because every day they ask can we play
basketball can you throw the ball If I'm pain it's like I can't
They can't even sit on my lap sometime I'm in so much pain they can t sit on my
left I mean you get kids and they get grown so fast they too big to sit in
your lap so you want to really endure that and a long time I couldn't. You came
walking in here with a cane right yes I came walking with the cane I walked out
without the cane because I had no pressure no no pain so I feel tremendous at that time
and what had the orthopedic surgeons and the people you had consulted previously
what what had they told you what sort of hope and prognosis have they had for you
the only hope and prognosis they had was a total hip replacement and they said
over time that's going to be the inevitable to happen which was kind of
scary to me because I had two hip surgeries already and they tell me if I can
continue with the pain tolerance on which they say I have a high pain tolerance to
continue that because the only thing they can do is a total hip replacement
that's the only thing they can do it is point in time when he told me and a
bunch of pin pills which I don't really care too much for. I hear you on
that so I think what we want to explain also the people is that the difference
in what we do versus orthopedic because whenever they see something on an x-ray
that's their reality whatever they can see on a picture that's the reality to
them we try to look more at the function we're saying well we can see what it
looks like but what sort of deficiency what sort of malfunction led to that and
if we can start reversing or changing that malfunction then we may be able to
restore function even if the x-ray still looks bad right and that's essentially
what would happen in your case because avascular necrosis basically means that
because of some sort of trauma you lose blood supply to the head of the femur
and that femur head is supposed to be nice and round and smooth to fit into
that hip joint but when it loses blood supply and
you have necrosis it basically dies and starts crumbling and withering away for
exactly and then what the orthopedic people do is they look at that and they
say well we've never seen one turn around so you're just going to have pain
but they're not looking at what is it that that's creating or what's what sort
of function is missing here so a hip joint can only we want to ask well why
did it get like that in the first place were so why does a hip joint get
traumatized why why does it stop working why does it get traumatized to the point
where the blood supply can't get there and it starts dying hip joint only works
as or any joint only works as well as the muscles that are stabilizing it a
joint has absolutely no purpose unless there are muscles that that can move it
around and keep it stable but those muscles even though they may need to
have a certain capacity to to create force they don't decide anything so it's
the signals from the brain to the muscles then that actually is creating
that function in the hip joint okay so if there is a problem with a hip joint
then there's something wrong with the signals from the brain to the muscle and
that's what happened at some point before you even had your very first
injury and we don't know when before that injury it happened but there was
already some sort of malfunction and we can still come in 20 years later and
start rebuilding that function if we know what to look for I I will agree
with that you've you've already started that with me I mean it's awesome and
then that's what I think about your practice is the teaching of for the
patient I'm a patient I like to be explained what's going
with me from a doctor's standpoint and that's why I appreciate your practice
and your company so much is because you break down how the body supposed to be
and how the body can naturally heal itself and whereas normal doctors they
they may as quickly give you a quick fix Here is some medicine here some pain pill
come back later when they run out and that's when I appreciate it I know and
I've gotten a whole lot better just from understanding had a brain function with
each body part with the whole muscle thing and I've never been told about the
muscle with my hip I never was told to get the muscles stronger again that you
you actually move my legs in motion is to where everyday movement effects that
and when you allowing it to ease up the pressure whole lot more because you are
exercising that you are getting the muscle more for me we're doing it once
again as opposed to just go to the weight room and just lift some weights
and get that muscle strong it's not only about that yeah so I appreciate you for
then and the work that we're doing for your muscles is we're using them in
specific ways to give the brain specific messages so it can help connect in all
the different directions and that's what makes the difference oh well there
that's it then that's what it does it makes a big difference excellent well
we're so glad to have you and I'm so glad we can make a difference for you
yes thank you. we'll keep working on it I know we will thank you so very thank you