John Murphy
Diagnosis: costochondritis 9 months | Treatments: 7
I was bent over and trying to lift the television out of the box. I began to experience pain to the left of the sternum of my chest. About six weeks later, I believe I re-injured it, moving a heavy tabletop, and the pain became increasingly more uncomfortable. Now I’m unable to sleep more than about an hour or two at night.
I have not been able to do that particular movement for 8 or 9 months. Myself and another guy carried a deer about a mile and a half over several hills and a creek, just the two of us, and did that without really any discomfort other than just the task itself. I mean, I didn’t have any particular discomfort in my chest when we were doing it.

Debbie Hartman
Diagnosis: chest/neck/arm pain and immobility from a fall 4 months | Treatments: 11
I fell on July 5th on my back on the stairs. I became very dizzy, lightheaded. I got this crushing chest pain directly over my heart. It went back to my back, and it went down my left arm. I thought I was having a heart attack. I’ve had several EKGs. I’ve had my blood drawn 10, 12 times. I’ve had an MRI of my heart, and I’ve had a brain scan. And they’re all negative. My current symptoms are dull, aching pain over my heart. Sometimes it radiates to my shoulder. Through the month of July, I had on a pain scale of one to 10 a 10. So, I couldn’t sleep.
Do you remember your initial symptoms you were having? Like that arm pain problem, the chest pain problem, pain between the shoulder blades, difficulty moving your neck? Yes. All the above. I had all those problems.
Since we’ve been doing therapy. My range of motion is back. I no longer have pain down my left arm. The discomfort level I would say is normal. I feel like the way I felt before I had my accident. No, I’m not taking anything for inflammation or pain. I went on a trip, we went around the world on a jet that covered 33,000 miles in 21 days. Wow. And how’d you do?
I did Okay. My neck didn’t bother me. No, no arm pain. I just think I’m good as new. Very glad I came for therapy. I don’t think that I would be able to function if I hadn’t, so I’m just delighted that I came because I was in a really bad shape and I had many questions back then, you know, what was going on. I’m very grateful I’ve done therapy here.
Thanks for coming.

Steve Ayers
Diagnosis: Tongue cancer neck/pectoralis-arm | Treatments 4
Tell about the symptoms you have been experiencing since you have had the radiation treatments. The arm falls asleep severely with a lot of pain in a patch on my back between my left shoulder blade and my vertebra. It hurts really bad.
It has gotten much better with this treatment. The arm had been falling asleep until just recently. It had been a couple months.

Brandon Davis
Diagnosis: chronic mid & upper back muscle spasm 6 months | Treatments: 6
I opened the trailer doors and a number of pallets fell out on top of me. They hit my arm, shoulder, collarbone and neck. It was sore all the time. I couldn’t sleep at night. It took me 2.5 -3 hours every night to get to sleep. And every morning when I woke up I had a huge knot in my shoulder and in my middle back where it hurt so bad I couldn’t breathe. I went through the rigamarole with the hospitals and nothing helped. Drugs. You know, how many drugs can you take! The very first treatment that night I had the best sleep of my life. I think I could have slept for 2 days. It felt wonderful! My flexibility came back, my strength, and my ambition and energy. Just all around I felt like a new man.

Jessie Brown
Diagnosis: chronic upper back/lower back & neck spasms 10 years | Treatments: 10
Ten years ago I was in a boating accident. I flew off the back of some skis and did a little flip and hurt my back pretty badly. Over a course of time my lower back and my neck just got worse and worse and worse to the point where I was in constant pain all the time. I could never relax the muscles. I felt like I was always tightening them as hard as I could. Definitely in the first 4 or 5 visits my lower back pain had gone away completely. I still had neck pain but we had not worked on my neck. I couldn’t believe the feeling. I have never felt that kind of relief! This like has absolutely taken care of the pain. My lower back has never felt better. There is no pain in my lower back. I can feel the muscles now are relaxed in this part of my neck. It used to be rock solid all the time. And I am a musician so I gig and after every gig I would feel terrible. I couldn’t sleep. Constant you know pain.

Marie
Diagnosis: chest/neck/dizziness/vertigo 4 months | Treatments: 3
They’ve done EKGs, stress tests, tests I don’t even know the name of and MRIs. Everything turned out negative. I had backache, my upper chest and upper part of my left arm were going numb and getting heavy and headaches. I thought the heaviness was a heart attack.
I could look farther in either direction than I’ve been able to look for months. The back aches were for the most part gone. It wasn’t heat and ice and hot heating pads every single night, which for me was incredible. I’ve been going through that for months. They did everything else in the world to me. Why this never crossed their mind was unbelievable.

Stephanie Boling
Diagnosis: thoracic back pain, auto accident 1.5 years | Treatments: 2
This is the furthest I’ve been able to bend back since the accident. I’m just so close. Being able to attain the level that I was at before the accident.

Amy Young
Diagnosis: thoracic back/neck pain/limited rib expansion 10 years | Treatments: 7
My singing instructor has noticed that I can’t get a very deep breath through my diaphragm and my lungs. He said it is like I am grabbing for the air and pulling in air with my throat and creating a lot of tension which is bad for singing. He wants to see me pull air into my diaphragm and hold it. It always feels stiff in my ribs. Ever since I was 10 years old. I have had it ever since I can remember. I really had a tough time doing really simple stretches to the side. And couldn’t understand why.
This is very good. It really feels a lot more open here (pointing to ribs and diaphragm). I don’t feel the pinching in the lower back. And there is much less tension in the back of the neck and shoulder area. And then the main thing I notice is that I can tip my head back much farther than I used to. Now I can tip my head all the way back.