Medical Settlement amount?

"If people can heal themselves from within, then med docs and drug companies won't be able to profit from you so much."


True, and they wouldn't need constant Chiropractic or Acupuncture (sp?) or any other treatments. I'm not that big a fan of regular doctors or medicines either.


"And just like your car that benefits from a regular wheel realignment--since everyday wear and tear can throw it out of proper alignment and cause other problems--your spine benefits from such regular realignments. "

That precisely is what Yoga, Pilates, Callanetics/Lotte Berk and other types of exercises are supposed to help with--correcting for normal or other types of wear and tear, if people did them.

Most people do not exercise at all, never mind to specifically counterract the effects of repetitive motion jobs or sports. Cars can't exercise. And such "regular realignments" such as you mention are a separate issue entirely from a specific back injury that may be fixable through one-time surgery. It depends on the injury itself, and should someone else pay for someone's "regular realignments" as well as the back injury they caused?

As to whether surgery or Chiropractic, how many years of visits are we talking here? That is what anyone who's paying for it wants to know, whether it is you or your insurance company or the party whose insurance coverage just went past its limits after the ??? visit. What is being fixed, and how is it best fixed? Can it be "fixed", or is "keeping it from getting worse" the best we can do? That's why you get more than one opinion, as you mention, from more than one specialist.

I don't doubt that Chiropractic has its benefits, same with Acupuncture. But anyone would be prudent not to just assume that everyone else feels the same way as you in your particular court's jurisdiction. The smoking example I used earlier would probably work in an anti-smoking state, but I bet it would get short shrift in the tobacco-growing states. So check out how many cases were won in your area using Chiropractic evidence, with which lawyers, judges and doctors, then decide how to proceed from there.

Lawyer up. the 2/3 the shark will give you will be so much larger than 100% of what you can negotiate, you wont even miss the 1/3 contingincy fee to the shark. Lawyer up. Its the American thing to do.

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