am I misreading (sorry very tired) or did the chiropractor cause the injury? oh no I have my first chiropractor appointment in a week for my chronic neck pain/hypermobile neck D: is this a sign to cancel it?
Hypermobile neck.
D: Nonononononononono!!! No don’t let them touch you!
Back in 2018 before we knew I had Ehlers Danlos, a chiropractor gently (I cannot stress this enough. He was so, so gentle with me and I still suffered a major, life threatening injury) adjusted my neck, tore all the surrounding soft tissue and I had to get an emergency MRI because I was at risk of a brain bleed.
Fortunately none of the arteries in my neck were impacted but the surrounding soft tissue and nerves were so badly damaged I’m still in rehab. It’s never going to fully heal, but I’m very lucky to be alive.
Honestly, no one should let chiropractors near their neck but especially not people with hypermobility. I cannot stress this enough, do not do it. Please.
I know it might be hard to get (I know my insurance only covered chiropractic care at the time and that’s how I ended up worse off🫠) but you’d be much better off pursuing long term relief through physical therapy intended to help stabilize and strengthen the area. Chiropractic care will not do this. It actively destabilizes the neck and doesn’t offer long term stability.
Please take care and be careful with your neck. It’s been 6 years and I still sometimes can’t hold my head up without getting shooting pain and vertigo.
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hello! i'd like to ask what would happen if someone were to be hit in the side of their neck with incredible force, from a blunt object? The kind of force to even knock them off their feet for a moment. What would happen to the neck, how would it heal, would there be a lasting hoarseness? thank you sm!
Gonna answer these in slightly reverse order:
Healing is going to depend a lot on the mechanism of injury and the exact damage caused, which you should hopefully be able to determine based on the following points:
If the impact is on the side of the neck, I can't imagine hoarseness being at all relevant unless the character wound up intubated afterwards. The windpipe is in the very front of the throat, and any impact to it that would knock someone off their feet would likely crush it, which is BAD NEWS. (From the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: The damage can range from minor vocal cord weakness to fractures of the cartilage structures of the larynx or trachea. These fractures can cause air to escape into the neck and chest, leading to significant respiratory compromise and even death if not diagnosed and treated quickly.)
Even with a (relatively) blunt object, like the leg of a chair, an impact of that velocity could potentially break skin and a whole lot more. It depends how broad the area of impact is, be it something narrow like a pipe wrench, or broad like a two-liter bottle. The more the impact is spread out, the less likely it is to break skin (which is the whole reason a bed of nails works), but of course you're going to get trauma to the area of impact either way, bruising and potentially damage to the underlying tissue and muscle.
There are a lot of MAJOR nerves and blood vessels in the neck, near the surface, too (hence why it's a spot you can take someone's pulse). I can't honestly imagine an impact of that force not damaging something. Which brings me to
You're breaking this motherfucker's neck. Whether the spinal cord is damaged is up to you, but you're almost unquestionably breaking vertebrae if you're hitting somebody in the neck hard enough to take them off their feet.
Most importantly, though, you have to remember what the neck is attached to, and what it's made to support: the head.
6. This person is getting a concussion. A hit to the neck that knocks you over will shake, rattle, and roll your brain like nobody's business.
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A angst drawing of dear Mike and Steven. Not canon to the current set-up I have to the brothers' story, but man, do I love drawing some surreal stuff of my characters. Sorry if the picture's kinda blurry, I tried to get the picture as clear as possible.
(The words in the picture: "Forgive me, Mike. I'm not able to eat the food you made for us anymore.")
I think the most annoying thing about when my neck injury from the chiropractor flares up, is that it feels like cracking my neck will fix it.
It feels like if I just move right or stretch it far enough the permanent tension at the base of my skull will ease and my head will stop feeling like it’s a half inch too high on one side. (The misalignment is mere millimeters but it feels like a lot more. Feels like someone’s driven a shim between my skull and the atlas at the top of my spine.)
It won’t, of course. Because it’s not a too tight muscle making my head sit wonky. It’s protective scar tissue. Scar tissue that helps splint the area and keeps my skull from cronching my cervical vertebrae like an anvil punching through polystyrene ceiling tiles.
(It’s amazing how heavy your head feels when the muscles in your neck don’t work right.)
And even though I’m aware of this. Even though I’ve worked hard for several years in physical rehab to strengthen the area and relieve what pain I can, it just feels like popping my neck would fix it and it’s taking everything in me not to because that’s the devil talking.
I should probably find my brace, though. Maybe that’ll help.
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A standing ovation for HV71 player Sanni Hakala before puck drop at Husqvarna Garden ❤️ The SDHL team captain was paralyzed from the chest down after an accident during a match in November 2023