A lady whose joints dislocate on a regular basis has described her misery as her body fails to ‘stay together’.
Crack Addicts follows Dr. Alessandra Colón as she ‘heals people with the power of chiropractic adjustment and a huge sense of humour.’
Dr. Colón strives to provide customers with as much comfort as possible, whether it’s a woman wearing a ‘cinching steel’ corset for 16 hours a day or a patient who can’t stop farting. However, in a forthcoming episode, it may only endure for less than a day.
‘So I’m taking a look at your medical history here, and I immediately see that you have EDS,’ she begins to her new patient.
According to the NHS, Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are a set of uncommon genetic disorders that can impair connective tissue, which provides support in skin, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, organs, and bones.
‘Somebody with EDS could literally pick something up and their shoulder just dislocates,’ Dr Colón explains.
‘It’s not a comfortable way to live.’
Describing her pain, the patient admits it’s ‘everywhere’.
‘From my skin, to behind my eyes, my jaw, everything hurts.
‘A lot of it comes from muscular skeletal pain.’
She adds that her pain in that moment is an ‘eight’.
Dr Colón replies: ‘The primary concern is the chronic pain that we’re having is obviously enough to make you want to be in a wheelchair.’
The patient continues, saying that having a wheelchair would ‘logistically’ aid with dislocations and save her energy.
‘It allows me to do the things that I not only want to do, but need to do in life.
‘My best day, could probably be a four out of ten in pain, and with that I could probably push myself to do anything I’ve done in my life so far, without a lot of pain.
‘But your worst day could be now, it’s unpredictable, it’s scary.’
She continues: ‘Nothing in my body is holding together the way it should be.’
The patient shows how her tissue is ‘ripped apart’ in comparison to regular individuals, implying that it’s’stretching far more than a normal person’s would’.
She says: ‘My bones come out daily, and they go back in, and usually they’d stay for a little bit and then they’d pop out.
‘But this left shoulder, I can pop it in, but you can see it pop back out.’
‘There’s a really long road ahead,’ Dr Colón warns.
‘I have no doubt of that, and on a chiropractic level, I’m reading your medical history and I’m kind of freaking out.’
The patient replies: ‘The miracle would be for you to realign or to fix something, and get it to stay for longer than 24hours. That’s never happened.’
She adds: ‘Any kind of relief will be a feat for me.’
‘It would be life changing,’ she tearfully tells the camera.
‘Coming from someone who has been this way their whole life, and no one in the medical community will listen to you, it’s hard to be hopeful.
‘But at this point, I would do anything.’
Warning Dr Colón that she may pass out during the procedures, she reveals: ‘My code word is timber if I’m going to pass out.’
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