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For many years I fought what appeared to be a losing battle with sinus drainage. As a child, before modern allergy testing was a common medical test, I remember blowing my nose almost constantly at certain times of the year. As I grew up things didn't get much better. But one day I came to the realization that I did not have to spend the rest of my life wearing out handkerchiefs or spending substantially on facial tissue. So I began to be open to ideas. For you see, it wasn't just PND--post nasal drip (excessive drainage)--that I was getting tired of. I also had: sinus pressure, sinus congestion, sinus pain (mostly sinus headaches.)
We were living at the time in California and a friend of mine, noticing my sinus misery, asked me if I had gone to see a chiropractor about my sinus problems, I said no. Then he told me about this story about how chiropractic had helped him solve some other health issues he had. Frankly, what I had heard about chiropractic had not been the most favorable. After some serious cogitation, nevertheless, I decided to go see the one my friend had gone to.
This happened many years ago in San Jose, California, but I still remember that first visit as if it were last week. I waited my turn--the waiting room was packed with people, some had come from other states just to see Dr. Z. Space does not allow for a full detailed account of the visit, but I can assure you it was the most interesting visit to see a health professional I ever had. In a nut shell this is what happened:
A set of X - rays were taken of my cervical (neck) area. He then proceeded to view them using a 3-D viewing devise he had himself invented. He concluded that my atlas vertebra--the first one at the top of the spine, where the skull sits--was out of alignment. Or using technical chiropractic terminology: the atlas was sub-luxated. He asked me if I wanted to have it aligned, I said yes. He laid me down on a special table and swung over my head a machine that looked to me like a drill press, but instead of having a bit at the end it had a metal devise with a rubber tip. The contraption tip was placed on the side of my neck, behind one of my ear lobes, and while he was talking to me he pressed a button and compressed air pushed the rubber tip onto that spot in a fraction of a second. "The atlas had just been "adjusted" using, again, chiropractic terminology.
The theory behind it is that a misaligned atlas vertebra exerts pressure on the nerves running through the spinal cord. This impedes the nerves from delivering their vital nerve energy to the various organs, etc., and thereby causes them to malfunction. The latter reveals itself in symptoms of various kinds which regular medicine does not know what is causing them--pain, discomfort, cramping, malfunctioning of the immune system, etc., etc. My verdict on this chiropractic procedure I will summarize thus: This story happened about 40 years ago. Since then I have had my atlas re-checked every so often, and when needed readjusted, ever since. It is a step in the right direction to put the body in a better position to deal with whatever is causing your sinus drainage, using its own defense mechanisms.
Paul Sanchez is a retired ordained minister who, since early childhood, had suffered from sinus problems. Two years ago he became free from all his sinus miseries. He owns and operates: http://www.mysinustory.com and http://www.mysinustory.com/drainage.html which provide information, help and support for those interested in finding out how he did it. |
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