FT: Yes. I got two adjustments prior to the injection. After the first one I might have felt some improvement. After the second adjustment there was definitely decreased pain. I could sleep for the first time on my tummy in more than a year and I didn’t have to elevate my arm at night. So definitely after the second adjustment there was improvement, and I would say after probably the fifth adjustment I could feel the benefit of the visits from you.

DK: Now the thing you’re telling about dropping things, can you give me an example of that?

FT: I think that was due mainly to decrease, not so much of sensation, but of decreased muscle strength. For example, I would reach for a glass of wine to wash that was on my extreme right-hand-side, extend my arm and drop it in the movement. I would just drop it, not because of pain but just because something…

DK: Lack of strength or lack of connection?

FT: Yeah, or just lack of coordination in some ways, and then I couldn’t open and still have difficulties in opening cans, in opening bottles because I am right-handed and that’s where I’ve lost my strength. Now it is a question of rebuilding muscle.

DK: So you think the muscle is just still weak, and now that has to build stronger again?

FT: Right, there’s less muscle on the right side than on the left side. There should be more muscle on the right side because I am right side dominant. That needs to rebuild. If you have compression of the nerve, which was evidenced by an EMG, so it wasn’t subjective, it was an objective finding, then clearly you have loss of muscle.

DK: Yes.

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