Low Back Pain and Chiropractic

Understanding Your Back Pain

You wake up and it’s there. You get up from your chair and it’s there. You get out of your car and it’s there. You bend over to put your little one in their crib and it’s there. A simple sneeze, cough, or just a walk on the beach reminds you that you are its victim. It haunts you day and night you cannot escape its grip.

To those of us suffering from Chronic Lower Back Pain (CLBP) this sounds all too familiar. The effect that lower back pain has on society is staggering. Conservative estimates reveal that lower back pain, the most common cause of disability for people under the age of 45, robs our society of $50 Billion each and every year. It also steals the joy from our lives as we’re forced to pass out playing with our children and grandchildren, miss critical days from work, and become less and less active. All of which can lead to a downward spiral of weight gain, the loss of our job, and many times ending in depression.

The Choice: Medication or Chiropractic Care?

When the suffering of CLBP, there comes a point of decision as to what do we do? The ease of reaching for the bottle of Advil, Tylenol, or a host of other prescription or non- prescription medications is very attractive, and the “relief”, albeit temporary, is very tempting. However, we’ve been down that path a thousand of times. Temporary relief. Another pill. The cycle goes on and on. We begin to wonder, “Will this ever end? Is there another way?” 

Thankfully there is! For over a century, tens of millions of individuals have chosen a normal approach for caring for their CLBP. Long known as the most common “alternative care” for lower back pain, chiropractic care has entered the mainstream, and for good reason.