News posted on February 08, 2009 06:23
Nowadays, Derise Rawls visits chiropractor Dr. Chris
Beckwith on a regular basis for knee pain. She started seeing
him after a tear in the cartilage of her knee had kept her in pain
for two years.
“I couldn’t walk my grandchildren outside. I couldn’t walk
with my husband,” Derise said. She tried the usual avenue of
treatment first: pain medication. “I was living off of those and it
wasn’t getting any better.”
Derise used Chiropractic care as a last result – but many
other people choose it first. “More and more we’re getting
people who don’t want to go through other forms of treatment.
They want to try things that perhaps are less invasive first and
they’ve heard good things about this type of treatment,” said
Dr. Beckwith. Since Chiropractic care involves neither drugs nor
surgery, it has far fewer side effects and does not require
recovery times after treatment like surgery does.
“Chiropractic is incredibly safe, even compared to something
as simple as an OTC (over-the-counter medication). When we
say things like this, we don’t mean there isn’t a place for either
over-the-counter medication or prescriptions because of course
there is,” said Dr. Beckwith.
Derise has found that she won’t have to have surgery for her
knee because after treatment with Dr. Beckwith, she’s pain-free.
“I can walk with my grandchildren. I can walk with my
husband. I don’t have to sleep with a pillow under my knees
because of pain. I don’t have to take any more pain medicine. I
have my life back,” said Derise.
SOURCE: http://www.wqad.com/global/story.asp?s=3320785&ClientType=Printable