man, chiros do good for some people, and i truly believe they genuinely want to help you, but if they made you ALL better, would you need to see them ever again? well, yeah, but not 3 times a week. i had surgery on my l5-s1 disc after going to a chiro for months, physical therapy the same, tried everything in the book...at some point, your discs are done, there's no fixin' 'em with any of those conservative methods...you need an MRI, you need to see what's going on with the soft tissue...xrays are a waste of money in these situations...i'm never gonna be 260 again, but i'm a damn good lookin' 225, and i feel frickin great...it took some time, and some rough patches, and i have to watch how i train, but who cares...your disc is likely herniated, or bulging, and i hate to tell you, once it reaches a certain degree, no chiro or pt in the world can help you, but they'll sure run your credit card and cash you check...most orthos and neurosurgeons like chiros, but only for once/twice a month visits to get those little kinks out, go ahead, ask 'em...three/four times a week is setting the stage for further injury, period. my frat bro is a chiro, and i could tell you some of the shit they go over at his meetings and training seminars...but seriously, get an MRI and/or CT scan, possibly a myelogram, figure out exactly where the pain is coming from, and what your options are...i've been right where you are now bro...