Meseck Family Chiropractic, LLC

Sciatica… It hurts really badly. Some days, it’s almost unbearable. I’ve had that horrible condition occur a few times throughout my life, and it’s always been very unpleasant to say the least. Every time that I’ve ever had it, it’s gone away after a couple of weeks. This time, I waited a couple of weeks, and that turned into a couple of months, and that turned into half a year straight of daily pain. It hurt to sit down, it hurt to stand up, and it hurt to lie down. There was no reprieve.

Every morning had become a ritual of coffee, ibuprofen (or another type of NSAID), and stretches just to be able to get enough freedom of movement to be able to walk more than a few feet without severe pain. It took almost an hour of every morning, and sadly, this had become my new normal. The human body does an amazing job at healing itself, but I slowly began to realize that my body wasn’t going to heal itself this time. I started searching the internet for what treatment options would be for someone like myself with a long term case of sciatica, and it wasn’t a very promising search… Steroid shots in horrible places, surgeries that end in “ectomy,” (in layman’s terms that means that you’re going to get something cut out or off of you), a bottle of pain pills, and a long road ahead. There was one common theme in every treatment that I read about; they all treated the symptoms rather than the cause of the problem.

That’s when I started looking for treatment options that would get to the root of the problem. The aforementioned “morning ritual” stretches I learned that actually helped me have any quality of life for that 6 months were videos posted on the internet by Chiropractors, so I started on a quest to find a local chiropractor to help me. On a particularly painful Sunday, I searched Google, and that’s where I found Meseck Family Chiropractic. I read all the reviews, and despite the single angry review about a sciatica issue that wasn’t written by the actual patient and that seemed to revolve more around a doctor’s note than anything to do with treatment, I decided to call and schedule an appointment.

That following Monday morning, Ms. Rachel answered the phone when I called and promptly scheduled an appointment for me that day. As soon as I entered the building, I was greeted with a smile, and after filling out all the necessary paperwork, I had a very short wait time until I saw Dr. Jake. I was armed with everything that the internet had to teach me about what I thought my problem was (LOL), and Dr. Jake listened to my concerns dutifully. Lots of Doctors have this condescending air about them that I’m not even sure that they are aware of, and when they explain things to you, they either speak to you like you’re an idiot, or they don’t really explain things to you very much at all. That’s not Dr. Jake Meseck! He was very thorough in his verbal evaluation, and he made sure that I understood exactly what he was explaining to me.

After taking several x-rays, Dr. Jake discovered that one of my legs was almost an inch shorter than the other one. What a shocking revelation that was! I had been walking around in a crooked posture my entire life to compensate for my shorter leg, and it was catching up to me. It explained so much… Experiencing hip pain while playing sports, one shoe wearing out twice as fast as the other, why I always leaned to one side while standing up, etc. He also discovered other past spinal injuries that had given me mild pain for years.

One month into Dr. Jake’s treatment plan, and I haven’t had to take NSAIDs in the morning for days now. I can sit, stand, and lie down without discomfort, and I feel so much better. Now that I’m standing straight, my sciatica is gone, and all of my secondary issues are feeling better. I had high hopes going into these treatments, but I had no clue that this man was literally going to change my life forever. I can’t thank Dr. Jake enough. I consider him a friend whether he claims me to be or not at this point, and my family will continue to use his services from now on.

Dr. Jake is very good at his job, has helped me walk again when I was in extreme pain. My doctor told me my best bet was to go to the pain clinic and they could manage my pain. Also told me a chiropractor couldn't help me, she was wrong. Would highly recommend Dr. Jake.

Dr. Merck is wonderful! Tammy greets you with a smile every time!

Went in with a rib issue I'd had for about nine months and finally got fed up with ... I was a little skeptical but the doc fixed me up perfectly along with loosening everything else up as well. I now feel better than I have in a long time!

Flexible! Kind! Actually spends time with clients to work thru there needs.