Mauk Chiropractic

In the summer of 2008, I went to see Dr. Mauk for neck pain that I had been experiencing for months. After a brief assessment, he determined that the pain that I was feeling was due to chronic slouching. He adjusted me and gave me a few exercises to do. I left feeling guilty, that my pain was my fault. I did the exercises and I hugely improved my posture.
However, even years later, I continued to feel some neck discomfort. It wasn’t until a car accident last Friday that I tried a chiropractor again. This time, I did my research and found the right fit. I went in with worsened neck pain and new thoracic back pain. They took an X-​ray and found that not only did I have scoliosis in my lower to mid-​back, but my cervical spine was so bad that it was curved completely the wrong way. How did Dr. Mauk miss that? I spent many years thinking that my pain was my own fault, and that I just wasn’t doing the exercises enough, or that my posture just wasn’t good enough. I felt so guilty that I didn’t go to a chiropractor again until a car accident. Luckily, I am in my mid-​20s and it can still be reversed. Still, I do wonder why Dr. Mauk didn’t take my pain more seriously and really get to the bottom of what was causing my aches. I might have been pain-​free for the past few years.