Chiropractic care
is given by a licensed chiropractor that uses hands on approach to manipulate
different parts of the musculoskeletal structure to alleviate pain and to help
patients avoid surgical intervention under traditional medical care. Chiropractic
care can help you to return to doing the things you used to do when tissue
injures have cause a restriction of mobility to any of your joints. Pain felt
in the back is one of the leading causes of people starting to live a sedentary
life rather than enjoying an active life.
When you go to the
chiropractor for relieve from back pain they first take a complete medical
history. They want to work with you, and your other physician to help you be
restored to health, so they need to know about any medical treatments you have
recently had, and about any medications you might be taking.
The massage therapy
that is performed to help relieve back pain cannot be done until there is an
x-ray image of your spine so the therapeutic specialist can determine if their
treatment could possibly cause more pain for you.
The treatment
process for back pain will possibly include spine manipulation, deep tissue
massage therapy, diet recommendations, exercise recommendations, and vitamin
therapy. Many people think that if they go see one of these specialist their
pain will be magically alleviated in one visit and they will feel as good as
new. The truth is that most patients who have chronic back pain or back pain
associated with a recent traumatic injury will have to see the specialist more
than once before they start to see lasting relief from their discomfort.
The manipulation of
the spine and the deep tissue massage will give you some temporary relief from
the pain in your back, but the pain will likely return over a period of time.
Each time you receive a treatment you will find that the results of the
treatment last longer, and you will find that the relief is more complete.
You have to follow
the advice they give you on diet and exercise if you want the pain to be
relieved for long periods of time, or to have the pain go away for good. There
are no magic cures when it comes to chronic pains in your back, neck, or
joints. It takes a great effort on your part and the part of your doctors, and
medical treatment specialist to find what things will help you have a reduction
in pain, and an increase in mobility.
