Adrian’s Story

Adrian is a self-employed photographer, a career he began just before lockdown. Photography for wellbeing involves being out and about, often for considerable periods of time. His courses in Bristol require a lot of walking, which had become almost impossible due to limping and back pain. Every day, he relied on pain-relieving gel, heat pads, and painkillers just to get by.

Then, Adrian visited Willow Chiropractic. By the second appointment, he noticed a remarkable difference. He completed a whole walk without any pain. He started pushing himself more, going from walking a few hundred yards to much further distances. Initially, he was attending three appointments a week. By the second week, he realized he had no sciatic pain at all. Before chiropractic care, he was in such intense pain that he could barely walk. But within two weeks, the sciatic pain was gone and hasn’t returned since.

Adrian had experienced sciatic pain in the past, and treatments like osteopathy provided only temporary relief. He expected the pain to return, but it never did. Since the first week at Willow Chiropractic, he’s had no sciatic pain. His back is still occasionally stiff, and he hasn’t always taken the best care of it, but the chronic pain is gone.

Most people think photographers take pretty landscape photos or portraits. That changed for Adrian due to his personal struggles with past trauma, mental health, and PTSD. He’s always seen himself as a bit broken, so his photography focuses on finding beauty in broken things. He avoids typical tourist attractions, preferring gritty, darker subjects like broken-down telephone boxes, graffiti, and the interplay of light and shadow.

Willow Chiropractic has significantly improved Adrian’s quality of life, enabling him to continue his photography with renewed vitality and without the constant burden of pain.