- What brings you in?
Fill us in.
- Well I was working out at the gym,
and I started feeling pain in my back,
then I started feeling my lower muscles
(mumbles) tight,
going all the way to my (mumbles) tight,
so when I walk I still feel a little tight,
so when I sit at home, when I rest,
my leg's straight like this,
I feel like my pain is releasing, like staying straight,
yeah, and basically, I'm feeling every,
well, it's not every day, but most of the time.
- Okay, got it.
So what we identified is,
this one over here is a potential problem.
So what I want to see is this,
just like railroad tracks, things gotta line up.
See those two lines?
They gotta line up.
So as we discussed before, over here, see this?
A little movement, that's fine, okay,
so, hold on a sec, let's try again,
so, see this little movement, that's normal.
However, when you experience trauma,
that's out of alignment,
see how unstable that is?
Okay, so that's significant instability in here.
So what we're looking for on this X-ray over here,
is this back part right over here,
these two bones, they have to line up.
Now usually and typically when people have trauma
in the low back,
because simply just knocked straight backwards,
see that deviation there?
In your case, you also had this additional
complexity of going this way,
going inferior-wards as well.
So that's what we see here,
see these two lines?
They don't line up,
are we in agreement with that?
So that tells us, and I'm going to take a closer look,
that particular one may be the problem on you,
and I'll explain why you have
this problem going down your leg.
So we're going to start a (mumbles)
we're going to check for there's any swelling
or muscle tightness in the area,
and we're able to see there's some kind of
chronic swelling going on over here.
It's no significantly puffy,
like what an acute injury would do,
but since it's chronic, it's a little harder to detect.
So (mumbles) palpate,
okay, muscle a little bit tight on the right side?
Feel that difference there?
- Yeah.
- On the left side, not as much, right?
There's something going on here too,
so swelling right at the spot.
We're going to mark it,
gonna keep an eye on that,
but right now the major one
is just this low back here.
Next up what we're going to do
is motion palpation here,
we're going to check and see what's moving,
what's not moving.
We'll start off with his foundation.
So you can move back and forwards,
no problem in the sacrum,
left hip, no problem,
right hip, no problem.
So we'll (mumbles) to next level.
How's that one right there?
Tender?
Pain? - No.
- How's that one right there?
Pain? - No.
- How's that now?
Does that duplicate?
Or send any tingling-ness? - No, nothing.
- Because right now, this one over here,
this is your fifth lumbar, okay,
you don't move upwards too well.
Feel the difference here?
I can't move it too well to the right,
I can move you easily to the left,
feel that difference?
Left,
right.
You're stuck on the right side,
right at this level.
Doesn't move.
Right now we're priming this,
we're pumping some fluid on the (mumbles)
getting it ready so we can set and correct this fella.
So, tell me, how does the right leg feel now?
- No.
I don't know, I don't feel that,
I don't feel like totally tight.
- So it feels looser now?
- Yeah, feels like,
yeah, feels like looser, I don't feel like,
when I came here, I feel, I was feeling
that tight,
I don't feel tight now, I just feel
my muscles a little bit like,
- Like spasming? - Spasm, yeah.
- So the deal is this,
because we had,
such an abnormality right there,
and I struck to the nerve,
the nerve flow itself, okay.
The nerves need to constantly flow,
it needs to go down, straight down all the way.
Now because there's decreased nerve flow here,
all these muscles, they need nerve power.
So if it doesn't have enough nerve power,
it clinches up,
so that's why you feel all that tightness,
in your buttocks muscle, right, in your gluts.
Hamstrings, and even the calves.
So wherever that nerve is going to, right,
what the problem is again,
since it's being obstructed,
not enough nerve power,
muscle get really tight.
So now that we started to clear this obstruction,
get some more nerve flowing down there,
now the muscle's spasming, why?
Because now it says, hey, what is that?
Now let's get some more nerve power in here.
Now let's start to get the muscles working better again.
So give it a couple of hours.
You need some time for those muscles
to rejuvenate themselves,
and it may take as long as next 24 to 48 hours
to be mostly corrected itself.
Any questions?
- No that's it.
- Pretty wild, ain't it?
- Yeah, it's just (mumbles)
- Keep all, keep walking around.
- See (mumbles) my leg, my right leg,
will feel like something,
but now I don't...
- How about that, huh? - I don't feel it.
- Ain't that a beautiful thing?
- I guess.
I didn't feel it, always feel (mumbles)
Don't think I feel my hip, it's like you said,
spasm. - Spasm a little bit right?
- Right, like I says, it's gonna take some time...
- I don't feel like,
like when I came here, feel like wholly tight.
- Good, like I said, it's gonna need some time
for the muscles to start calming down,
because we're getting some more nerve power
into those muscles there.
(mumbles) my brother?
Nice right?
- So maybe I can back to gym again...