subject: Surgery Is Not The Only Solution Ask A Chiropractor [print this page] Many resorts to home remedy, or self-cure whenever they feel back pains, neck pain, headaches, migraines, joint-pains and the likes. Others run to the pharmacy and just buy an over-the-counter medicine and refuse to consult physicians because of fear of being diagnosed for surgery or operations. People give their own diagnosis and there are instances that when they incur injury, they don't seek treatment believing that the body has it way to heal by itself.
It is still advisable to consult your doctor for body pains, specially those who had dislodged disks or got injured while doing physical activities. There are other treatments that you can ask your doctor that would not need open-surgery or any medication, particularly if you have allergy on prescribed drugs. One of the most effective and efficacious is chiropractic treatment.
Chiropractors are specialists in nonsurgical spine care and stress on spinal manipulation. They are also known as osteopaths, therapists who manipulates the skeleton and muscles. They treat spine-related pains through spinal adjustment or chiropractic adjustments or care. Manipulative treatments conducted by chiropractors are widely trusted in the U.S., with about 90 percent chiropractic treatment compared to other practicing physical manipulation treatment. This approach uses hands to control, knead muscles, mobilize, align, induce, grip, or work on the spine and nervous system. The efficacy of chiropractic treatment covers the following conditions:
Lower back pain
Whiplash and other neck pain
Tension Headache
Scoliosios (curved or rotated spine)
A spinal disc herniation (prolapsus disci intervertebralis), informally and misleadingly called a "slipped disc
Safety of the procedure
Generally, chiropractic therapy is safe if the one doing it is well-skilled and applied appropriately to above mentioned illnesses. Divers effect is likely to happen if one who practice it has not been well trained to do so. For back pain, neck pain, headaches, migraines, disc herniations, and even whiplash, if you would be getting the service of a chiropractor, make sure that you consult a professional one. They can provide you an expert advise and treatment for pains.
Professional chiropractors do not just give massage to ailing parts of your body. They employ diagnostic procedures that would provide an image of the injured part of your body. Some of the machines used are X-rays and CT scans. This way, they can manipulate disks or vertebrae that are dislocated or can reduce spasms with appropriate handling.
Cost-effectiveness
In a study conducted on 2006 among alternative approaches to medical care and treatment for back pain, neck pain, headaches, migraines, disc herniations, whiplash, chiropractic receives favorable result for cost-savings. The cost-effectiveness of chiropractic intervention also scored favorably in United Kingdom as likened to other interventions for back pains. Chiropractic sessions or frequency diminish as condition improves and matched with proper exercise, recovery is faster.
Do not wait to let your injury, back pains, whiplash, neck-pains, headache, migraines, disc herniations, and the likes keep you from living a happy and active life. Go and have a visit to a licensed chiropractor for an efficacious spine-manipulation treatment.
