back pain | Advanced Family Chiropractic

If you’ve never been to a chiropractor before, you may be skeptical about how much they can help with back pain and unsure how the process works. How do chiropractors treat back pain anyway? And, more importantly, does it work? You may be surprised to see how much better you can feel after just a few treatments.

Back pain chiropractors take a holistic approach to treatment. They are trained to detect spinal misalignments and restore health to the body naturally. The chiropractor at Advanced Family Chiropractic is specially trained to help correct the structure of the spine so that you aren’t just getting temporary relief, but setting yourself up for long-term improvements.

The Source of Your Back Pain

You may attribute your back pain to yard work, a car accident, or helping a friend move over the weekend. While these activities may have triggered your symptoms, the real issue goes deeper. Pain is actually caused when your nerves aren’t functioning as they should. The nervous system is responsible for controlling your entire body. Every part of your body is dependent on the information and energy that your nerves carry; interruptions in the nervous system are what cause pain.

Spinal misalignments can cause nerve interference, which often represents itself as back pain, neck pain, and even headaches. If the issue isn’t fixed, the nerve energy cannot reach vital organs and could eventually lead to disease. Chiropractic care aims to relieve these misalignments so that the nerves can function properly.

How Do Chiropractors Treat Back Pain?

Through adjustments, back pain chiropractors can help relieve symptoms that have developed from a single incident or from repetitive stress. Chiropractors manipulate, or adjust, the spine to restore joint mobility. By manually applying force to the joints, they are able to relieve restrictions and, therefore, the pain. When the spine is properly aligned, it can begin to heal from the damages to the nerves, tissues, and joints.

Many people worry that chiropractic adjustments hurt, but they rarely cause any discomfort. Some patients experience soreness after an adjustment because their muscles aren’t used to holding the spine in the correct position. It’s the same principle that applies to exercising. When your muscles aren’t used to doing something, they become sore, but over time as your muscles learn how to hold your spine in place, you’ll no longer experience the soreness.

Our office takes precautions to help prevent soreness from chiropractic adjustments. We couple chiropractic care with exercises, where our patients are taught how to hold the correct posture through exercise and strengthening workouts. This helps them heal more quickly and corrects their spine for long-lasting effects.

The Chiropractic BioPhysics® Difference

What else can chiropractors do for back pain? Advanced Family Chiropractic has a unique approach. We practice a type of care called Chiropractic BioPhysics® (CBP). CBP is a scientific approach to care that focuses on correcting and restoring the spine to its original, or correct, curvature. CBP combines biology, physiology, physics, geometry, and anatomy to identify the causes of your pain, loss of mobility, and altered health—and to fix them.

While some back pain chiropractors will simply give you an adjustment to help relieve immediate symptoms, This Southern Tier healthcare professional at Advanced Family Chiropractic go further. This chiropractor uses x-rays and other state-of-the-art technology to evaluate the curvature of your spine and your posture, enabling us to see where the real issues are. We, then, use traction to help align the spine and Dr.Bob will help strengthen the muscles around the spine, increasing the success rate.

Many patients find that as their alignment begins to correct, other health issues clear up as well. Chiropractic treatment allows the nerves to finally send messages to the body without interference from misalignments, improving your overall health.

Back Pain Chiropractic in the Southern Tier

Our office is different than most chiropractic offices. Our use of CBP and holistic combination of Exercises and Chiropractic care make our strategy unique. We care for the entire body and are committed to helping our patients improve their overall health, not just their spinal health.

If you are interested in relieving your pain and leaving it behind for good, give us a call and schedule your initial appointment for back pain chiropractic in Montour Falls, NY—607-535-7080

Many chronic back pain and neck pain sufferers have reported that their condition has led to a wide range of physical, psychological, and emotional problems. From headaches, migraines, and digestive issues, to depression, anxiety, fatigue, and compromised immune systems.^1-3

Does Back Pain Affect Your Health?

Yes. Recent studies clearly indicate that alterations in alignment of the sagittal plane (side view) of the spine are strong determinants of back pain, disability, and health status; this is especially true for the lumbo-pelvic region of the spine.^4-6 For example, in a 2002 report, Korovesis et al4 prospectively evaluated the lumbar lordosis (side curvature) in 100 normal controls age, sex, weight, and occupation matched to 100 Chronic LBP subjects between the ages of 20-70 years. In addition, to radiographic alignment, all subjects completed the SF-36 Health Status Questionnaire. It was found that chronic LBP statistically correlated to general health, physical function, emotional function, social function and pain. Importantly, all these variables were also statistically correlated to a reduced overall lumbar lordosis, a reduced L4-S1 lordosis, and a reduced L4-S1 lumbar disc height index.

It’s not just your bones, muscles, ligaments, and discs that feel the effects of spinal misalignment; your nervous system will be affected too. The nervous system is responsible for EVERY function of the human body. The brain sends vital nerve energy down into the spine, and out to all the limbs and organs – effortlessly and without any interference. The reality is that when people’s spines have been misaligned one way or another, this altered alignment exerts excessive and sometimes, dangerous, pressure on the delicate nerves flowing out of the spine.

Generically, altered nervous system pressures from spinal misalignment can be thought of as nerve interference. This interference not only causes pain and discomfort in the back and neck, but more importantly cuts down on vital nerve energy from reaching other body systems. Without proper nerve energy, body systems may experience dysfunction and eventually disease may set in.

Surgery vs. Conservative Care?

While severe spine deformities can require surgical interventions, why not fix the problem before it gets to that point. As early as 2002, studies demonstrated that very focused conservative-non-surgical methods can improve the sagittal plane alignment in patients with low back pain and disability.^7-10 One of the most successful non-surgical methods for restoration of the lumbar lordosis and pelvic tilt is called extension lumbar traction; this was developed and tested by Chiropractic BioPhysics or CBP Technique researchers.⁷ More than a decade later, other researchers have confirmed what Chiropractic BioPhysics researchers reported and suggested in 2002 – that correction of the lumbar side view of the spine improves back pain, disability, and nerve function.^8-10

How Does Spinal Misalignment Happen?

Spinal misalignment is a result of poor postural habits (computer use, driving, watching TV), automobile accidents, sports injuries, and even birth trauma. Everyone who experiences gravity, will eventually experience some sort of spinal misalignment. Back pain, neck pain, and headaches are often the last indications of spinal misalignment, since the majority of internal organs don’t have many pain receptors and can’t signal that something is wrong. Fatigue, depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, acid reflux disease, asthma, high blood pressure, allergies, weak immune system, and difficulty sleeping are all common indications that there can be a serious spinal misalignment.

What Can Be Done to Remedy This?

One of the best ways to eliminate the source of pain, dysfunction, and disease is to realign the spine back to its correct shape, and take pressure off of the delicate nerves in the neck and back.

Chiropractic BioPhysics® or CBP Technique is one of the most researched, scientific, and results-oriented corrective care techniques in the world. Chiropractors who practice CBP have seen tremendous results with patients suffering with chronic back and neck pain, disease, and in many cases, even organ dysfunction.

How Can You Get Help?

Chiropractic BioPhysics® corrective care trained Chiropractors are located throughout the United States and in several international locations. CBP providers have helped thousands of people throughout the world realign their spine back to health, and eliminate a source of chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, chronic headaches and migraines, fibromyalgia, and a wide range of other health conditions. If you are serious about your health and the health of your loved ones, contact a CBP trained provider today to see if you qualify for care. See www.CBPpatient.com for providers in your area.

Reference Links
1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25322735
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25006368
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15583360

**Dr. Bob Berry is one of two Advanced Certified Chiropractic Biophysics Doctors in NYS. He is the only Certified Instructor for the state as well.

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