Testimonials of Healing from Dr. Bobby Jones' Patients

After two failed back surgeries, I was diagnosed with spinal arachnoiditis at the age of 32.

Spinal arachnoiditis is a condition where one of the layers of tissue (the arachnoid level) surrounding the spinal cord becomes thicker than normal and presses against nerves or the spinal column. There is no cure for arachnoiditis. For the majority of patients, arachnoiditis is a disabling disease, causing intractable pain and neurological deficits. As the disease progresses, symptoms gradually increase and often become permanent.

Working full-time is next to impossible. Pain management clinics refused to treat me because I was out of work and without medical insurance.

Their reasoning was that patients without medical insurance were "less compliant." Even though I was willing to pay cash for my appointments and I had a referral from my neurologist, clinic after clinic refused to accept me as a patient. My primary care doctor did the best that he could do to prescribe a limited amount of narcotics to help manage the constant pain. But I quickly discovered that the amount he prescribed was inadequate and I continued to run out of medication long before it was time for a refill.

After doing a lot of research online, I discovered that there is an entire population of people who are currently suffering from severe, chronic, debilitating pain who have been more or less abandoned by the medical profession. Physicians today are afraid of loosing their medical license if they are investigated by the DEA. As a result, chronic pain is largely under-treated and people are allowed to suffer. That certainly turned out to be true in my situation. My doctor pretty much said, "This is all I am willing to prescribe for pain, take it or leave it."

My mom and dad urged me to see their chiropractor, but I did not believe that a chiropractor would be able to do much for irreversible scar tissue that had built up around the nerves in my spine. I thanked them for their offer to pay for an appointment and explained that I was in so much pain that the thought of someone working on my back sounded excruciating.

Finally, one day in particular, I had massive muscle spasms in my back and unbearable pain. I called my mom and told her I was willing to do anything. At that point, my mom called and got me an appointment with Dr. Jones. I was pretty much at a crisis point with my back pain. Later that day I had my first appointment with Dr. Jones. The next morning, I was surprised to find that the pain level in my back was significantly less.

Dr. Jones continued to work on my back for the rest of that week and taught me how to walk normally again. I had spent so much time with my back seized up with spasms that I had started to walk like a very old man.

Between the adjustments and the use of a precursor, to free up some of the connective tissue in my back, I started to have fewer muscle spasms in my back and my pain levels became more manageable. Dr. Jones introduced me to homeopathic muscle relaxers and pain relievers, which have helped me to stretch out, and reduce significantly, the limited amount of narcotics that I receive from my primary care doctor for pain.

These days, I continue to see Dr. Jones on a regular basis. He has been able to significantly improve my quality of life by helping me have fewer spasms in my back, helping my back and legs to move better, and helping me manage my pain with homeopathic pain relievers and muscle relaxers. For me, this has been no small miracle. I went from enduring weeks of agonizing pain waiting until I was allowed to refill my narcotic prescriptions to having better managed pain, with no crisis driven trips to the ER.

I am very grateful to Dr. Jones for what he has been able to do for me and I could not recommend him and his amazing staff highly enough. If you are looking for a great group of people who care and go out of their way to help people who are in pain, Blackbird Chiropractic is definitely the place to go for compassionate and professional healthcare. - J.J.