subject: Chiropractor Chicago Il | Relieve Your Pain With Chiropractic Physical Therapy [print this page] The quality of life can be stifled by the constant aggravation and downright nagging pain from the spine being out of position. Back and neck pain are prevalent in much of the population to the point where it is one of the most common complaints of patients in doctor's offices, health clinics and hospitals.
Back pain and neck pain is a common cause for missing work and missing out on participation in many kinds of activities. Methods to relieve back pain are many and a part of a multi billion dollar industry. With so many different avenues to choose from for relieving back pain and attempting to improve or restore the quality of life, it is difficult to know where to turn.
Surgery can be completely cost prohibitive and may be needed to relieve certain more life threatening conditions such as spinal stenosis. Spinal fusions to relieve disc pressure may not solve the problem. Spinal fusions involve long healing processes and of course involve general anesthesia and surgical procedures that can complicate the disc problems even after the healing process has taken place.
There are some outpatient surgeries that involve invasive surgery that do treat spinal stenosis with rapid healing, but the cost may be too high for many patients. If a disc is inflamed from being out of position, this problem can be remedied by yoga and other physical therapies. When the pain does not subside from those types of therapies then a visit to a chiropractor is a good decision.
Non surgical spinal decompression treatments are available at a chiropractic office where trained professionals administer treatments that are so soothing that patients often fall asleep during their office visit. Patients are strapped to the decompression table and various monitoring devices are applied so that the patient will be treated appropriately if spinal muscles and those in line with the spine begin to spasm during treatments.
These treatments synergistically free up tense musculature that supports the spine, which have been tangled up from the nerve pressure or damaged from disc compression due to spinal misalignment. The treatment is administered everyday for a week and then weekly until a series of treatments are completed. Evaluations to determine if the therapy was completely successful are done.
Most patients achieve freedom from pain after this type of treatment and most health care insurance plans will cover non surgical spinal decompression treatment from the office of a professional chiropractitioner. The types of pain that can be relieved from this non surgical spinal decompression therapy are those from, neck stiffness, muscle tension, fibromyalgia, sciatica, scoliosis, leg pain, disc degeneration, migraines, arthritis, carpal tunnel and lower back pain.
Many athletes visit the chiropractor regularly to keep the spine aligned properly to avoid injuries from recent stress and tension due to exertion from performance of the sporting activity.
New research has found that the techniques of "Cold Laser Therapy," and "Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression Therapy," and application of spinal adjustment by a chiropractor or a trained physical therapist, relieves painful discs, herniated discs, slipped discs and bulging discs.
Sometimes conditions such as spinal stenosis can be very debilitating and then the last resort of invasive surgery may be recommended. It is a good idea to see a specialist regarding pain that lasts more than a week and especially if the pain restricts daily mobility. If loss of control of bladder or bowel movements is indicated a trip to the emergency room is mandatory.
