Crack It! Visit a Chiropractor At Local Prices

Mina Yan | Sep 9, 2021 1:21 pm | Add a comment | 593 reads

You know that sound when every vertebra in your spine pops? It’s the sound – and feeling – of a new lease on life. Every once in a while someone in a WeChat group asks for a chiropractor recommendation and invariably, I think to myself, “Oooh, I should really go to one!” But somehow, someway, for the last eight years, I’ve never actually bothered to take the initiative and make the trip. That is, until recently.

During my daughter’s last check-up, I stepped onto the scale out of curiosity and found that my height had decreased by 1cm. WTF!? It could have been inaccurate or it could have been that I was slouching, but either way, it got me worried that carrying my daughter through pregnancy, not to mention all over Beijing, had perhaps actually compressed my spine.

All of which left me determined to visit a chiropractor once and for all. Unfortunately, there was another problem. I just needed to get my neck and back cracked, however, that kind of visit to a chiropractor in my native California would be around USD 60 to 100 for a visit. And the recommendations I was getting on WeChat for international hospitals averaged out to pretty much the same, around RMB 600 a visit.

There’s a part of me that finds paying international prices for a simple service locals get at a fraction of the cost terribly irritating. More often than not, there is an equally good, but cheaper alternative!

Between WeChat group recommendations, coupled with translation apps, and a search on Dianping, I was able to find Zhou Le Spine Health Management. In short, they’re a local chiropractor that speaks no English but has been around for decades and offers the exact services that I was seeking for about half the price.

Dr. Zhou Lei has been a chiropractor for over 20 years and within minutes, had cracked my neck and back, and adjusted my legs so they’re now the same length. It felt unbelievable! It was like all those ten months of pregnancy back pain and breastfeeding back pain suddenly never existed. This was better than a massage!

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