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According to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) 31 million Americans experience low-back pain at any given time.

A few interesting facts about back pain:

• One-half of all working Americans admit to having back pain symptoms each year.
• Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work.  In fact, back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the doctor’s office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
• Most cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic—meaning they are not caused by serious conditions, such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fracture or cancer.
• Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on back pain—and that’s just for the more easily identified costs.
• Experts estimate that as many as 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in our lives.

(Statistics taken from American Chiropractic Association)

What Causes Back Pain?

There are many different possible causes of back & neck pain.  The spine is a complicated structural network that includes bones, joints, ligaments and muscles.  Any one of these interrelated structures can be injured and result in the pain you are experiencing.  An accurate diagnosis will help localize the cause of your pain and allow the practitioner to make the most appropriate treatment recommendation. 

Sometimes the simplest of movements—for example, picking up a pencil from the floor— can have painful results. In addition, arthritis, poor posture, obesity, and psychological stress can cause or complicate back pain. This common condition can have a multitude of sources.  Locating yours is the first step to successfully getting out of pain and moving on with your life.

What Are My Treatment options?

Manipulation as a Treatment for Back Problems

Used primarily by Doctors of Chiropractic (DC's) for the last century, manipulation has been largely ignored by most others in the health care community until recently. Now, with today's growing emphasis on treatment and cost effectiveness, manipulation is receiving more widespread attention.

Chiropractic spinal manipulation is a safe and effective spine pain treatment. It reduces pain, decreases the need for medication, rapidly advances physical therapy, and requires very few passive forms of treatment, such as bed rest.

In fact, after an extensive study of all currently available care for low back problems, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research—a federal government research organization—recommended that low back pain sufferers choose the most conservative care first. And it recommended spinal manipulation as the only safe and effective, drugless form of initial professional treatment for acute low back problems in adults.

Spinal Decompression Therapy:

Spinal Decompression Therapy is an FDA approved treatment that medical research shows to be effective in the treatment of low back, neck, sciatic and disc related pain.  Multiple preliminary research studies have been conducted that show decompression therapy to be 86-92% effective and long term follow up showed patients were pain free up to 4 years after treatment.

Decompression therapy offers a non invasive and non-surgical approach to decompressing the spinal structures that may be the cause of your pain.  Until now, the only way to decompress a disc was through surgical intervention that carries with it inherent risk.  A computerized traction device creates an 'unloading' effect on the spinal structures thereby alleviating compression of spinal discs and nerves (generally the underlying cause of the pain) by creating a vacuum like effect within the disc.  This vacuum creates a negative pressure which 'sucks' the herniated disc material back into place and allows the disc to take on water and nutrients which aid and promote the healing process.

We combine chiropractic care, spinal decompression therapy, therapeutic exercise and supportive nutrition to promote the healing process.

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