From Post-Surgery Pain to Lifting 100 Pounds and Returning to Work

Lazar is very funny. He's got some good humor, kind of sarcastic sometimes and I love that. That's just me, though, you know? And they have a very inviting office. Like they'll have a patient appreciation day where you can get your friends and family to come in and get the consultation, know, different things like that. So they are very engaging and very, they definitely try to help you. Like whatever the situation might be, they try to accommodate. Hi there, my name is Denise Bowles and I'm a patient at Lazar Spinal Care. I work for the airlines for loading airplanes. That's what I do for a living. I heard about him on the radio station WMUZ. His podcast came on the radio. I had hurt myself at work and I had to have knee surgery and I wasn't getting better after the knee surgery. They send you to physical therapy, you know, to try to rebuild so you can do the job that I do because it's very strenuous. lift weight all the and I couldn't get past lifting 25 pounds. I was lifting 100 pounds like it was nothing. So I knew something else was still wrong, but no one was giving me answers. They told me I wouldn't that I would still feel hurt like I was feeling a lot of pain when I showed up to him. And they said, you know, you're still going to feel not so great for about six weeks. And then, you know, at right at those six weeks, you're going to wake up and it's going to be like a whole new version of yourself. And that's exactly what happened because I remember feeling bad all the way through Halloween. And I woke up the next day and I was like, wait a minute. This, that, I feel good, you know, so it and so that was one of the earliest things that I noticed. When I found Dr. Lazar, I couldn't even stand in front of the stove for 30 minutes to cook for my family. I'm someone who lifts, like, luggage and cargo at work. So... All of a sudden, I can't take a load of laundry downstairs. Like that was really, really an impact. So let's see. I went back to work in April of twenty twenty three and I am still working. There are many, many improvements, but those are just the ones that stick out in my mind. It surprised me how fast I started to get better. First made the decision to start the care, which was currently in physical therapy. So, they stopped me from the therapy and then once I was, they call it once my spine started to stabilize a little bit. They let me know in January, okay, you can start physical therapy now to start building up your muscles, so you can go and start lifting again. And what I love the most is that they don't, they don't tell me that they can do something if they actually can't, I don't want to be led on. I want you to just tell me the truth. So I can make an informed decision that's going to help me because that's the whole point of the care. Just try it and see what happens. It's not, you know, invasive. They don't do the karate chop method that a lot of other chiropractors do. You know, nobody's going to like try to fold you up like a pretzel. It's not that you don't have to do all of that. It's simple movements and simple pressure in certain spots, and it lets you let your body do what it's supposed to. If you've had bad experiences in the past, just don't write them off like everyone else, because they're not your usual chiropractic office.