People all over the world suffer from back pain at one point in their lifetime. According to the Health Policy Institute, “16 million adults experience persistent or chronic back pain”. Back pain: defined as a discomfort, dull, achy, sharp, shooting, or tight pain. Having back pain can lead to missing out on daily activities and limit your range of motion. One common treatment option is chiropractic care. Chiropractic care is the manipulative treatment of misaligned joints.
Can Chiropractic care help with back pain?
What Back Pain Does to The Rest of The Body
The brain, spinal cord, and spinal nerves carry all information through the body, a slight misalignment in the spine can throw your body out of norm; this is a sign of weak posture. Signs of misalignment in the spine can be low back pain and neck pain; overall decreasing body function. After you’ve acknowledged the symptoms, the next step would be to see a chiropractor. Chiropractors release the spine of any misalignments and correct weak posture. Think about this metaphor to explain misalignment: when a garden hose is turned on it flows quickly and efficiently, but as soon as there is a kink in the hose, the flow slows down. This example can be correlated to how the spine and spinal nerves flow in the body, once there is a kink body function decreases and relieving the kink allows the body to function more efficiently.
How Foundation Spine & Posture Attacks Back Pain
Here at Foundation Spine & Posture, we don’t just focus on the alignment of the spine; we also focus on postural correction. Postural correction happens during adjustments, as well as traction therapy. Traction therapy: a non-surgical unique spine stretch created for each patient by our doctors. The ultimate goal of traction is to improve your posture over time, other benefits can include the reduction of: back pain, sciatica, joint pain, neck pain, and overall forming the spine into the correct posture can lead to increased bodily function.
Traction Therapy and it’s Benefits
One method for long-term treatment of low back pain is improving the structure of the lumbar spine, specifically what’s called the “lumbar lordosis”, the spine in the low back should curve in a “C” shape. Problems like injuries, poor body mechanics, stress or sitting over time can lead to a flattening of this natural curve or shift the spine backwards or forwards from its optimal position. When the spinal column in the low back straightens or shifts, it astronomically increases pressure and stress on the discs and/or the facet joints of the spine. Traction therapy gently stretches the spine into proper position and holds it there for a period of a few minutes. The combination of traction, combined with at-home traction orthotics, spinal decompression and adjustments are effective, safe, and a drug free treatment for low back pain.
All in all, chiropractic care can be beneficial for back pain and can improve posture.
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