Do you wish you could get back relief and wonder how you can? Back pain can be a debilitating acute or chronic condition that limits a person from their activities of daily living and decrease their quality of life. Back pain is the number one reason people seek out chiropractic care and typically is a last resort type of care for many uninformed/uneducated individuals.
Treatments
Back relief can come in forms of many different treatments including: chiropractic manipulation, massage therapy, medicated analgesics, stretching, exercises, prescription pain-killers, and OTC’s. The majority of the population, when they suffer from any type of pain, just focus on the pain, how bad it is, and how fast they can get out of it. As Chiropractors, we focus on the source of back pain, rather than the symptoms. The underlying cause of back pain can be from misalignments within the spine, muscle strains, posture distortions, and underlying conditions such as gallbladder disease, kidney infections, and prostate cancer to name a few.
OTC effects
Pain is the last thing to be turned on in the body so therefore, the disease has to manifest for an extended period of time before pain is brought on. Most people, when they have a headache of back pain, reach for OTC’s such as Tylenol or Advil, unaware of the long-term effects these have on the liver. Back pain can be greatly reduced or even eliminated through the utilization of chiropractic care to correct spinal subluxations within the spine restoring proper nerve flow and reducing spasticity in the surrounding musculature. Next time you want back relief and reach for the Tylenol bottle, think about the adverse reaction and long-term effects and consider a better way, an alternative medicine.


