214 Main Street North, Airdrie
Tue 8AM - 7PM
5.0
★★★★★
122 reviews
“Where to start. 25 years ago i had a big work place fall injuring my L vertebrae and doctors said I had a 20% chance of walking. At this point i still had issues with sporadic lower body paralysis and would collapse randomly sometimes just by twisting to look to my side. I did chiro after the accident as per wcb stipulations. That chiro took no x-rays did not listen to a thing I told him about putting no pressure on my lower back. He continued to do a typical adjustment which included hard pressure on my lower back which triggered the paralysis. After 20 minutes of screaming pain, i was able to finally move my legs, got up and left and never returned.
I strength trained and did my own physio to get myself back to a manageable physical situation where I could walk and work but still with significant pain but no paralysis.
25 years later I had so much pain in my lower back and shoulders I could barely move, I couldn't even shoulder check driving my car. So I hit up massage cause I would die before I went back to a chiro. After a few cupping massages I felt the issue was significantly lower than the muscle and tissue levels I could feel issues in my spine and neck itself. My massage guy recommended Dr. L. He went through things with me meticulously, listened to everything I had to say, ran through my story and said zero pressure on my lower back. He sent me for xrays and had 2 nasty black vertebrae, 1 in my back and 1 in my neck.
LITERALLY after that first session of nothing but decompression the pain was seriously gone. Lasted a couple days and slowly started coming back but after continuing treatments with his associate Dr. Lawrence to accommodate my schedule and in only 2-3 months mostly just 'housekeeping' now, I am relatively pain free, assuming I dont carry massive loads at work.
As much as I hated chiro and the whole idea of it and the ptsd of paralysis again, I even got comfortable enough to have him twist my lower back in his adjustment but I still get super ptsd and anxiety about pushing on my lower back so they just skip it.
If youre scared of chiro or think you can just live with the pain like I did for 25 years, please trust me, nobody could be as scared as I was to go, you will not regret it, you will feel so much better and these guys will make your life so much more manageable and get it back to normal. Give it a shot trust me, what have you got to lose?
Yes I'm an actual client, I wasnt paid for my review and was 100% real and serious. A lot of companies plant reviews... this is not one of them.”