I was told by my 2nd chiropractor I have scoliosis in my back. He did not do any DNA tests though. He didn't get any x-rays either. No one has ever taken x-rays of my back. My mother has been told the same thing by a different chiropractor but she feels no pain and hasn't had genetic tests or x-rays either. She swims but does not do any weight training.

My upper back has constant tension. I think as long as I have had back pain i have been able to relieve it temporarily by pulling my shoulders up and back and pushing my chest foreward making it 'click'. I used to do this straight back but now I often lean a little to the left while I do it.

My knee pain is directly under the knee where the tibia is and doesn't seem to be more on either side. I felt it in boxing before running dispite running 100 plus km a week (not anymore!). It seemed agitated by sideways movement in either direction and any fast movement foreward or lunging foreward onto my left as i'm an orthodox boxer. Now it is agitated by any running or boxing and sometimes walking. I cut right back to swimming only for a while and thought it improved a little but it has flared up again since i've tried to ease back into easy jogging. Sometimes when i swim i feel it a little if i'm wearing fins but not without them.

I have a tight muscle or maybe tendon which travels from my right shoulder to my spine. This is not loosened despite many massages (from a runningcoach slash masseur who gets right in with his elbow) and suction cup massage therapy (from a different traditional Japanese massuer).

I have a depressed vertebrae in my middle back just below where i feel the tension.

I think my spine curves out to the right although i haven't been told which way. My left shoulder sits a little higher than my right.

The physio would push down on the left side of my upper vertebrae to put them in which would help temporarily. One chiropractor would crack my neck assuming I had some boxing related whip lash but he never gave me any pain relief and seemed a bit dismissive.

My second chiro would give me some temporary relief by pushing my upper back in while I lied on my front. He would also get me to lie on my right side and twist my hips in. He even massaged some points somewhere inside my mouth with his fingers which did allow my hand to move back in the dumbell chest press position further since I had noticed a reduction in ROM while doing weights. I can't rememer which hand it was and I have not had this problm since. He said is was something to do with my nervous system.

Sometimes more than others my left leg seems to be higher off the ground than my right - especially if I've been training hard. However, I've had my leg length checked and apparently there's no discrepancy. Perhaps that's where the hip displacement comes in but I am not sure which way it tilts. I think the physio said it was in the opposite direction to my scoliosis but he thought it was too small to be significant.

Recently my neck has started to click very occaisionally when I tilt my head so my ear is closer to the top of my shoulder (not sure which direction, maybe both).

If this is not related to normal boxing training there are two things which might be responsible although i can't nut out how. Both things occurred a few months before I felt pain but i can not pinpoint anything which might have caused it immediately.

One is me getting orthotics. I was told by running partners that my right foot tended to flick out when i run. The podiatrist told me i have excess laxity in the tendons of my right foot. He made me orthotics using plaster moulds claiming they would support my for more for a firmer, more stable and efficient push off. My right arch collapses in more than my left when i am not using the orthotics but i can not see any difference between the right and left orthotic.

I was also knocked off my bicycle by a car and landed heavily on my shoulder (can't remember which). I did not feel any pain except from a few bruises on my legs so i went to work and didn't get it checked out.

So the order things occured in would be as follows:
- orthotics and getting knocked off my bike
- months later noticed back pain
- months later noticed knee pain
- months later noticed continuing knee pain, shortening of left leg and neck clicks sometimes.

I really miss being able to train consistently and all this treatment is getting pretty expensive since I'm living on a PhD scholarship so any help you can give me would be fantastic! Thanks!