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Low Back and Neck Pain
Low Back Pain
Our care of people with low back pain is based upon our unique understanding of what causes the problem. While it is a complicated condition, the pain of a low back typically comes from either the discs or the facet joints as a result of abnormal muscle function.
The muscles generally don’t cause the pain but it’s their failure that exposes the joints to trauma and ultimately leads to pain. It becomes a bigger problem than you might think, since the control of these core muscles falls under the responsibility of your brain. In fact, one recent study found a smaller brain in certain areas in people experiencing two years of chronic low back pain!
What we do…
When your pain is acute, even with severe sciatica, we successfully use our specialized Cox-Flexion Distraction adjusting table to gently decompress your injured discs or facet joints. Often, specific one-sided exercises are helpful for pain relief and faster recovery.
In those instances, many of our patients use our in-office low back core muscle balancing program. As your back heals and the pain subsides, we can really get to work regaining control over those malfunctioning deep spinal muscles and the nerve pathways that control them. The Spineforce is excellent for this.
Neck Pain and Headaches
Just about everything we do at work, school or at home, requires us to assume a head-down, head-forward posture. Over time, this will cause most of us to lose the normal backwards curve in our necks.
If you’re looking for the primary cause of most neck problems and even headaches, this is it. With a straight neck and the forward head posture that accompanies it, the biomechanics and neurological function of your spine becomes so dramatically altered that it can be the underlying cause of many of the other afflictions people quietly endure.
What we do…
Whether or not you choose to correct your cervical (neck) curve we’ll adjust you in such a way and show you exercises that will help. Obviously, the most prudent approach would be to correct your curve. This can be done rather simply in most cases, with our take-home curve correction program.
