Chiropractic Success Story

Dr. Mark Lagerkvist

Ricki Angelus, chiropractic success story“While searching for a solution other than surgery (for my shoulder problems), I lost my swimming scholarship, my ability to study, and my friends and family due to  my attempts to squelch my depression with alcohol. I then found chiropractic and it saved my life.”

As a competitive swimmer for the University of Wisconsin, I was traveling the country as one of the tops in my field. While training midway through my first year, I began to lose sensation to my left arm from the shoulder to my fingertips. Upon further examination, I also lost a pulse to that arm. I could not use a screwdriver or a toothbrush with that hand. The medical doctors diagnosed shoulder problems and placed me on fifteen different anti-inflammatory drugs, and, as each one wore off, I received a new prescription. This was destroying my liver, kidneys and digestive and immune system, which made me chronically ill.

This continued until I was given a product that we now know causes cancer and is only used on racehorses. Since anti-inflammatory drugs only mask the problem, I continued to train and further damage my body. Because I wasn’t getting any better, and in fact was getting worse, the university hospital began to run tests on me. They gave me every poke, prod and scan. I was the guinea pig, with up to twelve residents gawking at a time. No one could believe what was happening in my body.

Following about $20,000 worth of testing, I was told that I needed to have a rib taken out to make room for the nerves, arteries and veins. I spent the next year and a half in search of a second opinion that differed from the first. I saw the best specialists in the country only to be told the same thing at each office. While searching for a solution other than surgery, I lost my swimming scholarship, lost my ability to study, and lost friends and family due to my attempts to squelch my depression with alcohol. I lost everything I had worked for over the last twelve years. I then decided to have the surgery, as there seemed no other recourse. It did not work so I continued down my downward spiral and could have killed myself, or someone else, by drunk driving seven nights a week.

Then, when the bottom fell out, someone recommended that I try chiropractic. While skeptical, I listened to Dr. Beyler and it made so much sense. I knew I was in a special place from the beginning. Within the first couple of adjustments he was able to temporarily restore the blood and nerve flow to my left arm. From then on, I knew what I would do for the rest of my life. I would be a Chiropractor committed to saving others lives just as I am convinced Dr. Beyler saved mine.

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