Anyone who hates going to the doctor can readily vouch for a variety of home remedies for everything from a splinter or sprained toe to a clogged ear and toothaches.
And while I’m still salty that eyes and teeth aren’t just covered as part of overall healthcare insurance – I’m still trying my best to avoid the doctor.
Now, the avoidance tactics only work with minor things that I can’t fix with some rest and over-the-counter medicines.
Unfortunately, I managed to follow one of my random thoughts through a Google search and was depressed at my findings.
Let me start off by saying that I’m a popper – of knuckles, knees, and other joints.
There’s just some strange relief found whenever I manage to make a pop happen with a joint hat previously too stiff for my comfort.
However, I’m limited on my overall range of motion for some of the bigger ones I need to be done – namely my back.
I can manage my shoulders on my own and sometimes can bend, twist, or otherwise contort myself to manage something with my hips and my spine.
I mean, at least I think it’s my spine.
Don’t shoot me, I was pretty terrible at anatomy in high school and paid money for that dual-credit class so I could avoid it entirely in college.
Plus, I always knew that my career wasn’t ever going to be in the health field at all, so, I didn’t worry too much about it.
I digress!
Still, if I can’t manage a good pop on my own, I’ve been known to enlist help from my sister or best friend by having them walk on my back.
I’m not insane, they are just the folks I know who weigh the least in my immediate sphere.
Unfortunately, my sister left last week before I could enlist her help for these tense spots on my back.
My only other option is waiting for a high school friend to visit Bay City and bribe them with food to get my back popped in a slightly safer way.
Or, at least what I think might be a safer way to pop my back.
According to several chiropractor and health websites, the professionals are vetoing all of those home remedy methods.
They even add that things like inversion therapy and using a hot bath to help “loosen” someone’s tense back as being frowned upon for relief and can create other problems down the road.
This means that all of that information basically adds up to me being happier not knowing or wanting to take the steps to investigate the random questions in my head.
However, curiosity is just in my nature so any self-imposed bans on Google searches for whatever random topic I want to know more about are really a moot point.
Just like with everything one reads on the internet, information outside of a verified factual resource should be taken with a grain of salt.
Plus, I’m not going to stop popping my fingers any time soon.
The back cracking though, I’ll work on leaving that to the professionals.