subject: Chiropractor Moses Lake Wa | The Debilitating Effects Of Back Pain [print this page] Of all types of pain the human body can experience, I would hazard a guess that back pain is usually the most debilitating. Your back is the center of your body, and when it hurts, it affects everything else. Pain can course out from your back into your shoulders, arms, legs and chest. It can make it hard to move, to do anything, to live a normal life at all.
Back Injury -
My dad hurt his back nearly twenty years ago at the glass company where he worked, when he was in his early thirties. He couldn't work for weeks, and ultimately he changed jobs. He opted to not have surgery but to pursue chiropractic and physical therapy options. Gradually, he got better.
You Have to Maintain Your Back -
The problem was that he didn't stay on any kind of maintenance plan with his chiropractic care, and possibly the chiropractor he saw didn't impress upon him the importance of keeping up with it. What chiropractic treatment is supposed to be about is like most holistic medicine: it's a long-term fix, a lifestyle, not something you do once and expect to be healed for always.
Daily Back Strain -
Our daily lives put strain on our backs, almost no matter what you do-whether you're hunched at a desk in front of a computer all day, hauling bricks across a construction site, cleaning your house or jerking your car out of the way of an eighteen-wheeler on the highway. The smallest thing can throw your system out of whack, particularly if you've been injured before.
Quality of Life Will Eventually Be Affected -
What I'm getting at is that most people are afflicted by some degree of back pain-or if they're not yet, then they will be. Obviously the severity of it can vary a lot, but even minor pain can get worse over time until it eventually imposes strict restrictions on your quality of life.
Don't Wait for it to Ruin Your Life -
My dad, who was running five miles a day ten years after his back injury, now has trouble, some days, getting up off the couch. As long as it didn't hurt, or hurt too badly, he figured it was okay. By the time it wasn't okay, his options were severely limited. Now, surgery is pretty much the only way he can go.
My point: even minor back pain usually signals the potential for major back pain, and you would almost have to live in a bubble not to have this potential at all. Seek out chiropractic treatment or something like it for preventative care. These days, even traditional Western medicine generally acknowledges the benefits of chiropractic treatment. It's even been recommended that children go, because sometimes your back gets out of whack literally from day one, while coming down that birth canal.
Other Benefits -
Moreover, having your spine in proper alignment not only can prevent you from ever reaching the point of debilitating back pain, but it improves your health in other ways. It enhances immune function, decreasing the incidence of illness and allergies. Overall, taking care of yourself before something goes badly wrong makes you a happier, and obviously healthier, person.
