Question
Hello,

For around more than 2 years, I've been suffering from an unknown condition
which I feel was due to an over-accumulation of stress from college or
hypoadrenia.  I recently went to a chiropractor who said that I would need 10
treatments for me to get better.  I'm extremely relieved to hear this and hope
what the chiropractor tells me is true because my former internal medicine
doctor didn't really help me and an acupuncturist who said that he could help
me couldn't (although he tried his best).  I'm quite skeptical that fixing my
spine will help my condition, but I haven't been able to work for more than
half a year because of my vulnerability to any kind of stress so I'm betting on
hope.  An interesting thing my chiropractor told me was that the nutritional
supplements my nutritionist was recommending to me (i.e. vitamin C and
pantethine) was only acting as a band-aid and this "reactive" form wouldn't
cure my problem.  He told me that the proactive way (i.e. manipulating my
spine) would fix the problem.  I really hope he is right, but what is your
opinion?  I'm sad that I'm suffering from this kind of problem, but could
fixing my spine be the answer to my problem?

Answer
Yes and no.  Firstly, subluxation can and will affect the region the nerves of that level feed, as well as the spinal cord from there down.  to say it will unequivocally fix it...IF the misalignment is causing the problem...yes.  However, there can be many things that affect the adrenals.  Nutritional approaches work very well (We happen to use Standard Process supplements and give a targeted approach...but, with our approach, we also have a questionnaire to see if one problem that seems to be the man is actually secondary to something else).  Secondly...I have been at this over 16 years.  I cannot definitely say to a patient that it will take "x' number of visits to correct something.  Humans are a dynamic individual, and vary person to person...this has a huge affect on healing, and how people respond.