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| 4535 Normal Boulevard Suite 101 Lincoln, NE 68506 (402) 483-6633 patients@mtchiro.net |
| LOW BACK PAIN |
When you hear the word chiropractic do you think of care for back and neck complaints? Many people do
and yet the world’s first chiropractic patient (1895) was deaf and recovered his hearing after a chiropractic
spinal adjustment. The world’s second chiropractic patient was relieved of a heart condition. Thousands
soon praised chiropractic for saving them from headaches, colds, allergies, asthma, sciatica, arthritis,
seizures, ear infections, stomach trouble, gynecological problems and many other conditions including back
pain.
What Does Your Chiropractor Do?
Your chiropractor is specially trained to locate and free your body of a sever abnormality that interferes with
your body’s proper function. It is called a vertebral subluxation. It is a misalignment of your spinal bones or
vertebrae that affects your discs, nerves, ligaments and ultimately your entire body. Once your chiropractor
relieves you of a vertebral subluxation, your body functions better.
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is very, very common. About 85 percent of the population will experience disabling low back
pain at least once during their lives! That’s almost all of us. The problem is so bad that, according to one
researcher, at any given time 6.8% of the US adult population is suffering from an episode of back pain
lasting more than two weeks. That’s a lot of bad backs. The estimated cost of this problem in the US is over
$50 billion a year.
Do Medical Treatments and Surgery Help?
The standard medical approach to back pain varies depending on the severity of the condition. Muscle
relaxers, painkillers, rest and physical therapy such as traction, diathermy, ultrasound hot packs and cold
packs, are sometimes used. These approaches are often found wanting however. Even bed rest has been
found ineffective for a serious form of back and leg pain called sciatica.
If the problem doesn’t improve or worsens than surgery may be performed.
The medical approach is at times necessary – even back surgery has a place. But research is revealing that
spinal surgery for acute lower back problems should rarely be performed. Many of those who have had back
surgery report a recurrence of their symptoms within a year or two of the operation and may return to the
operating table. Spinal surgery is currently a very controversial (and costly) approach to low back pain: Over
time, most patients with disc herniations recover with or without surgery, so that outcomes after five years are
similar when surgical and non-surgical approaches are compared… In the end, the decision to operate on a
patient with a lumbar disc herniation usually depends on patient preference rather than necessity.
The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractors have helped millions of people with low back problems, often saving them from pain, disability,
drugs and surgery. The chiropractor’s purpose is to gently and painlessly rebalance and realign your spine to
relieve pressure on your nerves, discs and muscles. Chiropractors have a special term for an area of your
spine that is not properly aligned and is causing nerve stress: a vertebral subluxation.
Anyone suffering from a back problem should see a chiropractor to have their spine checked for vertebral
subluxations. If they are present, then the chiropractor will gently and painlessly correct the subluxation and
release stress on spinal nerves, meninges, discs and vertebrae. If a subluxation exists in your body it must be
corrected. This could make the difference between a life of ease, health and comfort or a life of pain, disease
and disability. Major government studies from the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, have reaffirmed what
chiropractic patients have been telling their friends with back pain for years: Why don’t you see my
chiropractor? You’ll get better much faster than from drugs or surgery – and it’s safer too. For example: On
the evidence, particularly the most scientifically valid clinical studies, spinal manipulation applied by
chiropractors is shown to be more effective than alternative treatments for low back pain.
The Commission has found it established beyond any reasonable degree of doubt that chiropractors have a
more thorough training in spinal mechanics and spinal manual therapy than any other health professional.
There is therefore, economic support for the use of chiropractic in low back pain…The benefits of
chiropractic treatment became more evident throughout the follow-up period… Chiropractic was particularly
effective in those with fairly intractable pain – that is, those with a history of severe pain… The percentage of
chiropractic patients who were ‘very satisfied’ with the care they received for low back pain was triple that for
patients of family physicians.
Why are the results so overwhelmingly in favor of chiropractic? Because painkillers, muscle relaxers, Valium,
braces, physical therapy and surgery are not designed to correct vertebral subluxations. Chiropractic is!
More Than Low Back Pain
For over a hundred years people with all kinds of health conditions have visited their doctors of chiropractic.
Many have initially come for back pain, but then discovered so many other ways chiropractic spinal care can
help them and their family.
The goal of chiropractic is to free your body from subluxations, permitting realigning of your entire spinal
column and releasing pressure on your nerves so your entire body may function at its optimum.
and yet the world’s first chiropractic patient (1895) was deaf and recovered his hearing after a chiropractic
spinal adjustment. The world’s second chiropractic patient was relieved of a heart condition. Thousands
soon praised chiropractic for saving them from headaches, colds, allergies, asthma, sciatica, arthritis,
seizures, ear infections, stomach trouble, gynecological problems and many other conditions including back
pain.
What Does Your Chiropractor Do?
Your chiropractor is specially trained to locate and free your body of a sever abnormality that interferes with
your body’s proper function. It is called a vertebral subluxation. It is a misalignment of your spinal bones or
vertebrae that affects your discs, nerves, ligaments and ultimately your entire body. Once your chiropractor
relieves you of a vertebral subluxation, your body functions better.
Low Back Pain
Low back pain is very, very common. About 85 percent of the population will experience disabling low back
pain at least once during their lives! That’s almost all of us. The problem is so bad that, according to one
researcher, at any given time 6.8% of the US adult population is suffering from an episode of back pain
lasting more than two weeks. That’s a lot of bad backs. The estimated cost of this problem in the US is over
$50 billion a year.
Do Medical Treatments and Surgery Help?
The standard medical approach to back pain varies depending on the severity of the condition. Muscle
relaxers, painkillers, rest and physical therapy such as traction, diathermy, ultrasound hot packs and cold
packs, are sometimes used. These approaches are often found wanting however. Even bed rest has been
found ineffective for a serious form of back and leg pain called sciatica.
If the problem doesn’t improve or worsens than surgery may be performed.
The medical approach is at times necessary – even back surgery has a place. But research is revealing that
spinal surgery for acute lower back problems should rarely be performed. Many of those who have had back
surgery report a recurrence of their symptoms within a year or two of the operation and may return to the
operating table. Spinal surgery is currently a very controversial (and costly) approach to low back pain: Over
time, most patients with disc herniations recover with or without surgery, so that outcomes after five years are
similar when surgical and non-surgical approaches are compared… In the end, the decision to operate on a
patient with a lumbar disc herniation usually depends on patient preference rather than necessity.
The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractors have helped millions of people with low back problems, often saving them from pain, disability,
drugs and surgery. The chiropractor’s purpose is to gently and painlessly rebalance and realign your spine to
relieve pressure on your nerves, discs and muscles. Chiropractors have a special term for an area of your
spine that is not properly aligned and is causing nerve stress: a vertebral subluxation.
Anyone suffering from a back problem should see a chiropractor to have their spine checked for vertebral
subluxations. If they are present, then the chiropractor will gently and painlessly correct the subluxation and
release stress on spinal nerves, meninges, discs and vertebrae. If a subluxation exists in your body it must be
corrected. This could make the difference between a life of ease, health and comfort or a life of pain, disease
and disability. Major government studies from the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, have reaffirmed what
chiropractic patients have been telling their friends with back pain for years: Why don’t you see my
chiropractor? You’ll get better much faster than from drugs or surgery – and it’s safer too. For example: On
the evidence, particularly the most scientifically valid clinical studies, spinal manipulation applied by
chiropractors is shown to be more effective than alternative treatments for low back pain.
The Commission has found it established beyond any reasonable degree of doubt that chiropractors have a
more thorough training in spinal mechanics and spinal manual therapy than any other health professional.
There is therefore, economic support for the use of chiropractic in low back pain…The benefits of
chiropractic treatment became more evident throughout the follow-up period… Chiropractic was particularly
effective in those with fairly intractable pain – that is, those with a history of severe pain… The percentage of
chiropractic patients who were ‘very satisfied’ with the care they received for low back pain was triple that for
patients of family physicians.
Why are the results so overwhelmingly in favor of chiropractic? Because painkillers, muscle relaxers, Valium,
braces, physical therapy and surgery are not designed to correct vertebral subluxations. Chiropractic is!
More Than Low Back Pain
For over a hundred years people with all kinds of health conditions have visited their doctors of chiropractic.
Many have initially come for back pain, but then discovered so many other ways chiropractic spinal care can
help them and their family.
The goal of chiropractic is to free your body from subluxations, permitting realigning of your entire spinal
column and releasing pressure on your nerves so your entire body may function at its optimum.
Nerves exiting between your vertebrae
can become impinged or irritated.
can become impinged or irritated.