Tag Archive for: Chiropractic Treatments

Long Term Benefits of Chiropractic Maintenance Care

chiropractic maintenance care

Have you ever experienced persistent and recurrent back pain? Treatment helps to keep the pain at bay, but, whether it be a job or daily life, the pain returns. Sometimes persistent aches and pains due to work and daily life cannot be avoided and will continue to return despite using exercise and movement to help relieve symptoms. If this is the case, chiropractic maintenance care may be an option to help. 

Chiropractic maintenance care is used as a preventative measure to help ensure that recurrent or persistent pain is not occurring frequently in a patient’s day-to-day life. Although many chiropractic patients benefit from maintenance care, often individuals inquire as to why they need it if the pain has not returned. Similar to going to the dentist to get your teeth cleaned and checked, chiropractic maintenance care helps to ensure the patient is preventing persistent and recurrent pain.

Is Chiropractic Maintenance Care Right For You?

There are many factors to consider when choosing whether or not to use chiropractic maintenance care. Firstly, maintenance care can be used by a wide variety of people with many different conditions. If you consistently have soreness and stiffness in the back once a month, once every two months, or even only twice a year, maintenance care once every 1-3 months can help to prevent re-occurrence of pain and maintain the clinical improvements from previous treatments. 

Secondly, if you are not experiencing pain and stiffness, it is still beneficial to be coming into the clinic for maintenance care treatments. When maintenance care was studied (Nordic Maintenance Care Studies), they found patients who came in for regularly scheduled visits despite pain and stiffness, experienced less bothersome pain with only 2 additional treatments. 

Thirdly, chiropractic maintenance care can be more cost-effective when compared to waiting until pain becomes problematic and debilitating. Patients who come in for regularly scheduled visits have less likelihood of developing bothersome pain and dysfunction that can take several visits to help relieve and return to baseline. This means less time spent coming into the clinic in a month and continued prevention and maintenance of the current improvements. 

Chiropractic Treatments in Victoria, BC

I enjoy working with patients who have had persistent and chronic pain that can be helped with chiropractic care. Providing patients with regular maintenance helps me to encourage regular exercise, ensure patients are not developing bad habits or movement patterns, and maintain the proper functioning of the entire skeletal system. If you have chronic and persistent pain, don’t hesitate to call and make an appointment at Diversified Health Clinic in beautiful downtown, Victoria, BC.

/by

Why see a chiropractor?

The answer to why see a chiropractor depends on you. If your life is disrupted due to back pain, neck pain, headaches, sprains or strains, or another problem involving your muscles, joints, and nervous system, chiropractic care can help you feel like yourself again. Injuries to the spine can happen at any stage of life and for various reasons including car crashes, workplace incidents and sports injuries. Even simple everyday tasks such as going for a walk or washing the dishes have the potential to cause pain or discomfort that many of us just decide to live with. Sometimes these aches and pains even prevent us from working or doing the things we love. You don’t have to live with the pain.

https://youtu.be/7gEF1MC8_Wo

Click Here to see the complete article.

/0 Comments/by
, , ,

Treatments To Consider For Low Back Pain

Most cases of low back pain can be caused by a variety of problems, including muscle strain or sprain, herniated disc or degenerative disc disease. Typical sources of low back pain include:

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Muscle spasm
  • Ruptured or herniated disk
  • Sciatica
  • Strain or tears to the muscles or ligaments supporting the back
  • The nerve roots in the low back, may be irritated
  • The bones, ligaments or joints may be damaged

Low back pain from a muscle strain is the most common and can be caused by lifting a heavy object, lifting while twisting, or a sudden movement or fall.  While pain or discomfort can happen anywhere in your back, the most common area affected is your low back.

When the muscles in the low back are strained or torn, the area around the muscles becomes inflamed.  This inflammation causes the muscles in the back to spasm and cause low back pain.

Treatment for low back pain depends upon the patient’s history and the type and severity of pain. The vast majority of lower back pain cases get better within six to eight weeks.

Treating low back pain consists of a combination of treatments, such as Chiropractic, Massage, Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Cryo/Hydro Therapy, Laser Therapy, TENS therapy, Ultrasound, eToims, Decompression Table, Graston Technique, Shockwave Therapy, Neuro-mechanical Adjusting Tool as well as topical ointments such as Traumeel and nutritional supplements that help with inflammation.

An exercise program is necessary and essential to rehabilitate the spine, increase your range of motion and help alleviate back pain.

With the first symptoms of low back pain, stop the activity for the first few days; this allows injured tissue to begin to heal, and reduce any swelling or inflammation. You can also apply heat/ice to the painful area. Always use ice for the first 48-72 hours, then use heat.  You can also take something to help with the inflammation such as ibuprofen or nutritional supplements.

/0 Comments/by