I'm quite young and have spondylosis from C3 to C7 and more bulging
disks from T4 to T10. Not a normal spine, not a surgical one either,
just screwed up enough to leave me in constant pain. At one point I
was on Fentanyl Patches I was flat miserable. Happy to say the
patches are gone now and I'll never even consider those evil things
again.

But, what I wanted to throw at you guys is this...a few months ago,
in one of my totally despondent moods, I took a chance and went for
non-surgical decompression with a chiropractor that has been worth
the chance. It's a lot like traction, except it senses your muscle
contraction and adjusts with it instead of yanking on it anyway the
way traction does. Some people claim nothing short of miracles with
this treatment, I'm not going that far, but I can say I'm taking far
less meds and I'm finally starting the rehab I've been trying to do
since I got hurt in Jan 2006 and without all the extra pain and nasty
numbness in my hands all the time. It's a long road, but at least I'm
on it now. :-D

It's apparently been around for years, it just isn't that well known.
And we all know our surgeons won't tell us about it!lol! It might not
be what we all need, but after not turning my head to the left for a
year, this little improvement is nice. I figured it might be worth it
to get the idea on here just in case it can help more of us.