Back/Neck Pain Update

So as many of you know, I’ve been having lots of back/neck (primarily neck) pain constantly for the past year.  I started going to a new Chiropractor here in Bloomington IL, and I love him.  He has been very helpful and he also gives me exercises to do that help loosen muscles.  Apparently I am not able to move my legs, neck and body near as much as the average person can – which would explain a lot of the pain.  What I haven’t talked about as much is the pain I have in my hips, primarily my right hip.   I’ve had lots of pain there as well, second in most painful area of my body, following the neck.  Today the Chiropractor told me that, though I have improved a lot, he was hoping and expecting that I would be a lot better by now than I actually am.  He did a few tests and said that more has to be done.  So Friday late afternoon (4:45pm CST) I will go in to another office for a neck X-Ray.   Also, whenever I can fit it into my schedule, likely on Friday as well, I will go to yet another office to get hip X-Rays on both my hips.  Friday morning I will also go into the original office and someone else will start working on my hips, I think he said they were going to start doing some muscle stripping on my hips.   However, if the X-Rays don’t come back with anything helpful then I will have 2 options: 1) get something injected into my hip regions to take pain away temporarily, though it will lead to arthritis further down the road, or 2) get and MRI on my hips to find out what’s causing the pain and work from there.   In the case I would need an MRI, I would first go to a Medical Doctor to get him to look at it and see if he would prescribe the same thing.