 Excruciating or just annoying - any pain in the back can be a health problem and should receive your serious attention. Pains in the lower back or anywhere along the length of the spine can be caused by any number of situations:
- Unusual muscle strain
- Unusual emotional tension
- Bumps, Jars or wrenches during times of fatigue or overwork.
- Misaligned vertebra or subluxation
Sometimes the most severe pain in the back can be the easiest for your chiropractor to alleviate. However any unrelieved pain in the back calls for immediate action. People who have a continuing pain may live in fear that a disease of some vital organ is the cause of the pain. Pain, even fleeting, seemingly inconsequential pain, should bring about a prompt visit to your chiropractor.
Paresthesia Can Arise from Misalignments
Patients often experience no pain when there are misalignments of the spine that cause pressure on the nerves. Instead, strange sensations called "Paresthesia" may be felt in other parts of the body. Some of these sensations are hot and cold spots, feeling tingling, burning, or stinging. These, too should be investigated by your Chiropractor before more serious problems develop.
Main Causes of Backache
Impingement of spinal nerves can result from subluxation in the spinal column. In simple language, a nerve cannot carry normal nerve impulses if it is pinched at its exit from the spinal column.
Muscle pain can come from a strain or a sprain of the spinal column and cause backache. A fall, lifting something the wrong way, an automobile accident or even a misstep can alter the structure of the spine. Often there is no traumatic reason for patients to have backache, just weak, underexercised muscles may be permitting a subluxation and bringing on back pain. Since the body is equally balanced on both sides, a significant weakness or strength of various muscles in the back can bring about an imbalance that tugs at a misalignment.
On the other hand, over-exertion can cause muscle spasms. Muscles need the chance to relax (lengthen) from time to time and in over-exertion, the same muscles are worked the same way day after day.
Muscles of the back also hurt from emotional tension. Tenseness keeps the muscles tight (shortened), which causes back pain.
Poor posture can also be a cause of back pain. Weak or untrained muscles put a heavy load on the spinal column, contributing to back pain and poor health. Your doctor of Chiropractic can analyze your posture and explain problems to you. In each person structural balance must be maintained for good spinal health. Chiropractors are trained to help you maintain this balance.
Nerve pain can be felt deep within the body tissue - or anywhere along the distribution of the nerve.It is called neuralgia and is not necessarily felt at the spine. Doctors of Chiropractic will be able to trace the pain along the nerve to locate the precise point where the pain originaltes. Irritating or pinchying the nerve can cause pain anywhere along its length.
Disease of the spine itself, such as arthritis, accounts for only five percent of back pain. It takes years of training and experience to confirm this type of back problem, but your doctor of Chiropractic is well qualified to do so.
Low Back Pain and Backache
Check the following list to see if you have experienced any of the critical symptoms that might mean more serious back trouble:
- Numbness in the arms or hands
- Pain between the shoulders
- Leg pain or numbness
- Lower back pain or stiffness
- Pain in any of the joints
- Paresthesia (strange sensations)
- insomnia
- Headaches
- Neck pain or stiffness
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The Nerve System and Chiropractic
Your nerve system extends to every part of your body and energizes every organ, tissue, and cell.
Each small spinal opening allows some 300,000 fibers to pass through, coming from the brain and extending to all body parts. When imbalance of the spinal column brings on subluxations, of one or more vertebrae, the affected spinal bones will press on, pinch and impinge nerves. Normal nerve impulse to that part of the body is then altered.
"There's no rule in life that says you only get one problem."
-Dr. Daniel Amen, M.D. |
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When you have back pain, it may come from a single source or it may be a combination of the causes discussed above. Your doctor of Chiropractic studies the whole human being and conducts examinations with laboratory tests and x-rays of the spine as well as special Chiropractic and nerve tests.
Chiropractors are well qualified to decide what should be done in spinal treatment to allow the body's nerve supply to heal itself. Chirporactors ahave both the knowledge and the experience to correct spinal subluxations causing back pain and related problems.
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