Back pain is a leading cause of work limitations globally. In 2018, 75.8 million American adults — or 29.9% of individuals aged 18 and older — suffered from lower back pain. 15% to 20% — or 3 to 4 in 20 adults— have back pain (or spine pain) during a single year. 50% to 80% of adults will experience at least one episode of back pain during their lifetime.
The most common type of back pain is nonspecific nerve back pain. Approximately 85% of low back pain is classified as nonspecific. This type of back pain is known as nonspecific because it has an unclear cause. Most cases of an acute type of low back pain are categorized as nonspecific. Most people will have nonspecific lower back pain at some point in their lives.
Chronic back pain takes several forms caused by soft tissue injuries, herniated discs, degenerative injuries, and fractures.
Treating low back pain isn’t something that chiropractors do, but people think they do. What chiropractors really do is remove nerve interference so that the body can begin to function and heal properly. When this happens, low back pain tends to resolve. Pain is a signal that something is happening in your body, and it is always good to pay attention to it and try to resolve the cause as soon as possible to prevent permanent damage. While recurrence of low back pain is very common, data shows that patients who sought healthcare for their back pain saw a decline in recurrence.
Any pain that is left unaddressed in the body takes its toll on one emotionally (pain can cause depression), physically (pain can limit activity), and performance-wise (pain can limit sleep).
How Our Low Back Pain Care Plan Works
Identifying The Cause
We listen to you, and more importantly, we hear you. We take this information, along with utilizing two state-of-the-art computerized technologies, to determine what is going on in your body and how this affects your health. We then devise a personalized plan to help you reach your goals.
Specific Chiropractic Care
Based on what we find in your computerized exam, we now know exactly how to adjust you. At each visit, we determine where to adjust you based on which zone of your brain is imbalanced on that visit. Adjustments are performed with the best instruments in the industry so that they are precise, extremely gentle, and tailored to your body’s needs.
Accelerate Your Healing
Research has shown that your brain is most open to change for 20 minutes after a chiropractic adjustment. That being so, why would we immediately send you out into the world that put you in the condition you came in with? We don’t! We maximize that period after your adjustment with our groundbreaking Transformation Stations, which accelerate healing and contribute to permanent positive changes and habits.
How We Treat Low Back Pain in Woodstock, GA
The specific treatment techniques we use may vary depending on the individual patient and the nature of their condition. Here are the techniques we use as part of our lower back pain treatment:
Comprehensive Consultation and Exam
In our office, we take the time to listen to why you’re here and then educate you on what true health is and how we can help you build yours.
We perform state-of-the-art NeuralChek exams to determine the state of your nervous system, which will allow us to accurately tailor a care plan, including the exact kind of adjustments you need.
Getting to the root cause of any problem is more important than addressing symptoms. Symptoms may or may not point to a particular problem, but by improving your overall health, your body can begin to heal itself, and many times, these symptoms resolve on their own.
Specific Chiropractic Care In Woodstock, GA
A subluxation is when a spinal bone causes interference with the transmission of signals to and from the brain to the rest of the body. Subluxations dampen these signals, causing disease, anxiety, depression, and less than optimal functioning of glands, muscles, and organs.
Subluxations in the lumbar spine can interfere with communication between the brain and the muscles of the lower back and lower limbs, as well as the organs in the abdomen and pelvis.
By balancing the nervous system, the body can communicate with itself properly and heal, which results in the disappearance of low back pain in many cases.
Chiropractic isn’t a treatment for low back pain but a method of improving your health by optimizing function, adaptability, and healing. No other healthcare profession does this, as most if not all, focus on treating the symptom versus the cause.
Zone Technique is a chiropractic method that aims to balance the six systems of the body: glandular, eliminative, nerve, digestive, muscular, and circulatory. By applying gentle pressure to specific points on the head, we can stimulate the corresponding spinal nerve and restore the system’s normal function. Zone Technique can help reduce inflammation, pain, and stiffness in the lower back and reduce low back pain.
Common Causes of Low Back Pain in Woodstock, GA
Muscle Strain
A muscle strain is an injury to a muscle or a tendon — the fibrous tissue that connects muscles to bones. Minor injuries may only overstretch a muscle or tendon, while more severe injuries may involve partial or complete tears in these tissues. Muscle strains are sometimes called pulled muscles.
Acute strains can be caused by one event, such as using poor body mechanics to lift something heavy. Chronic muscle strains can result from repetitive injuries when you stress a muscle by repeating the same motion.
Muscle strains heal when the muscle has the proper nerve supply and adequate time to rest. They have similar symptoms to sprains and in some cases even fractures.
Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (SI Joint Pain)
There are two sacroiliac joints in your lower back, and they sit on each side of your spine. Their main job is to carry the weight of your upper body when you stand or walk and shift that load to your legs. The sacroiliac joints connect the hip bones to your sacrum in the back.
The joint’s main function is to bear the weight of the spine and transfer it to the hip bones. Like any other, SI joints can become irritated, dysfunctional (move too much or not enough), or injured, all of which can lead to pain.
The best treatment for SI joint pain is to address the cause, and one of the causes can be subluxation. When the brain is not communicating properly with this area, it can become inflamed and function in a way it isn’t designed to. After addressing the cause of the dysfunction, the joint can function properly and begin to heal.
Facet Joint Dysfunction
Facet joints are the spine’s joints located at the back part of the spine. They exist on every vertebra), and each vertebra has two sets. The facets prevent excessive motion when the spine turns and bends.
Wear and tear over time often causes facet disorders and pain. Chiropractic doesn’t treat low back pain, but once the spine is free of interference, it can move properly, taking undue stress off of the facets in many cases, thereby relieving pain.
Subluxation
A subluxation is when a spinal bone interferes with transmitting signals between the brain and the rest of the body. Subluxations dampen these signals, causing disease, anxiety, depression, and less than optimal functioning of glands, muscles, and organs. Chiropractic helps to balance the brain and nervous system, allowing the body to function better, adapt, and heal.
In our office, we locate subluxations using the Zone Technique and gently correct them, depending on what was found on your computerized neurological exam. Chiropractors are the only practitioners who recognize subluxation and are trained extensively on how to locate and help the body remove it.
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7851 Hickory Flat Hwy, Suite 204
Woodstock, GA 30188
Frequently Asked Questions
What causes lower back pain?
There are multiple causes of low back pain, from strains to cancer and everything in between.
How should I sleep with lower back pain?
Sleeping with low back pain should be done in a position that offers the most relief. This is often lying on one’s back with a pillow under the knees.
Why won’t my lower back pain go away?
There are many reasons why lower back pain won’t go away. Not modifying your lifestyle is a big one. Lack of exercise, being overweight, sitting too long, stomach sleeping, and, of course, vertebral subluxations left uncorrected can all be reasons why it won’t go away.
Can a chiropractor in Woodstock, GA, help with lower back pain?
Chiropractors don’t treat lower back pain, but by having a chiropractor balance the brain and nervous system, the body can begin to heal itself, which can help resolve lower back pain.
How can you tell if your spine is out of alignment?
There are some signs that may indicate that your spine is out of alignment, such as one foot turned in more than the other or one hip, shoulder, or ear higher than the other, but only a chiropractor can determine if these are caused by subluxations, which interfere with how the brain communicates with the body.
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