If you are one of the many people that suffer with back pain then you will know what little relief there is from this condition. Yes some medications can provide back pain relief in the short term, although none currently exist that remove pain completely. Pain relief is possible with the medications available but that is all they do and the reason for the pain continues.While there are a host of prescription medications that help with pain relief, many are doing nothing more than masking the symptoms instead of tackling the underlying cause of the pain.
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The safety of chiropractic care has been well documented in professiona; journals of all kinds. Serious side-effects of chiropractic manipulative therapy occur approximately one out of every one million adjustments. Compare this to the serious side-effects of medicines and surgical errors to put safety in perspective. Research reveals that some 100,000 people ale each year from the effects of prescription drugs that prescribed by their doctors.
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Doctors of Chiropractic comprise the second largest health care profession with over 50,000 D.C. practitioners in the U.S. They earn the title "doctor along with medical doctors (M.D.), doctors of osteopathy (DO.), and dentists lD.D.S.). The educational process leading to the title Doctor of Chiropractic is quite similar to that of an M.D. and DO.
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Over the course of the past 2 decades the typical golf swing has changed dramatically. Today's golfers have exaggerated back swings that place a tremendous amount of stress on the joints, discs, and muscles of the lower and middle back regions. Even under the best physical conditions, todays golf swing isn't exactly back friendly stress on the spine. Either way the end result is lower back pain! It appears as though golfers experiencing lower back pain have reached near epidemic proportions. In fact, one study reported that approximately 50% of those golfing regularly would develop chronic low back problems at some point in their lives.
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John M. Grohol, Psy.D. has an interesting post on his blog that discusses how people with chronic lower back pain can reap as much benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy as they do from physical therapy. This is the finding of a new Dutch study suggests.

Low back pain sufferers reported improvements in function and levels of pain whether they received 10 weeks of physical therapy or underwent 10 weeks of cognitive therapy, compared to those who received no treatment, researchers says. However, those on a combination of cognitive and physical therapy did no better than those on either treatment alone.

"People with disabling low back pain should be (active), and this can either be achieved by physical training or cognitive behavioral training," says the study's lead author, Dr. Rob Smeets, a consultant in rehabilitation medicine at the Rehabilitation Centre Blixembosch in the Netherlands.

"Physical training is a little bit more preferable for people with a relatively low level of disability at the start of treatment, but the cognitive behavioral treatment is to be preferred when people are moderately to severely disabled," he says.

Results of the study appear in the Jan. 20 issue of the open access journal Musculoskeletal Disorders from BioMed Central. You can read his full post at http://psychcentral.com

Imagine trying to balance a bowling ball on a stick To make it more difficult, tilt the stick forward while trying to maintain balance of the bowling ball. That's what it's like trying to support your head on your neck fit loses its natural curve! Your neck was created with a built-in shock absorber called a curve or lordosis. This was formed by design because the curve acts like a spring and absorbs the shock of your head resting on your neck. Think of the same bowling ball now resting on a large spring.., can you see and feel the difference? When your neck loses its curve, the ligaments supporting your neck become stretched and lose their ability to maintain the curve. This can occur from a motor vehicle accident, chronic poor posture or uncorrected vertebral subluxation complexes.
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Back pain can surely keep you from doing a good deal of your normal routines. Lower back pains can keep you from exercise, wearing fancy shoes and even dancing your night away. Upper back pain can keep you from lifting heavy objects, stretching your arms to their required or expected capacity, and, in the case of severe upper back pain, even from breathing properly.
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Back pain affects so many people, that it has become as common as the headache. Our modern lifestyle of sitting for hours at work, not minding our posture. Carrying things and standing up carelessly can make back pain even more difficult to deal with. Even with modern medications and physical therapy, you may still have back pains and have to accept them until the right chiropractor, orthopedist or therapist comes along.
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Doctors of Chiropractic deliver 94% of all manipulative procedures for many back problems including spinal stenosis. If your doctor determines that your condition would benefit from chiropractic care, part of the treatment plan will most likely include a form of spinal manipulation called chiropractic manipulative therapy C.M.T.I or 'adjustments'. The purpose of the adjustment is to normalize the improper spinal motion found within the vertebral subluxation complex, therefore reducing nerve interference.
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The most common cause for a true pinched nerve is herniated disc, which is sometimes, although not accurately called a slipped disc, and is the most common cause of severe back pain and sciatica. A disc becomes herniated when the jelly doughnut-like inside ruptures out to the point that it “pinches” the nerve. Special testing such as CT Scans or MRIs are recommended to assess the severity of the disc disorder, and can be very helpful in determining the best treatment plan. Your Doctor of Chiropractic may use a special technique to treat your pinched nerve, such as traction, and specialized spinal rehabilitation exercise and stretching programs.
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