Suffering from back pain is one of the most common reasons why people in Bangor or Ellsworth, ME, seek regular help from a doctor or chiropractor in pain management. The condition can occur from multiple issues and causes, as well as age, health conditions, and personal habits. No surprise, back pain causation can range from chronic work stress and poor ergonomics to a car accident injury or sports mishaps. Back in Balance Wellness Center offers a solution!
The Complexity of the Back
What people feel as back pain is often a symptom of multiple body parts and areas working together, or not in the case of pain sensations. This complexity includes the spine, the discs in the spine, the nervous system, and various muscle sets surrounding the spine for core motion and flexibility. For years, assuming no major injuries or degenerative issues, the back can work fine, but small issues can grow over time. Then, with a sudden strain or issue, the back can go out of alignment, most commonly felt as serious and ongoing pain that limits mobility and back strength. Other issues like sciatica or scoliosis create varying conditions but share a definite unwanted symptom, pain.
How Back Pain Is Typically Treated
With general medicine, the approach is stabilization, immediate relief to allow the body to relax, and then expecting the body’s healing system to begin taking care of internal repairs. However, it doesn’t do much for long-term rehabilitation of a serious back injury. And, pain response is typically addressed with rest, temperature applications and pharmaceuticals. In short, this approach doesn’t enhance the healing process; it’s more of a bandage control strategy, and then the patient is left hoping recovery “just happens.” Unfortunately, with chronic back pain, that doesn’t occur.
A Chiropractor’s Approach to Back Pain
Unlike the traditional medical strategy, a chiropractor’s approach to back pain is causation-focused. This direction looks at the entire body’s operation, including the patient's medical history as well as how the body's mobility is working.
Back pain causes can range very far from simple pain points that can be visibly identified, such as a contusion. In that chiropractic evaluation and comprehensive diagnosis, a chiropractor often identifies multiple causes. So, for example, an office worker with back pain could have a combination of work-related chronic stress, scoliosis, poor ergonomics, and an old sports injury from youth compounding now with pain that won’t go away on its own. In other cases, the issue may be singular, such as sciatica pain in a pregnant patient.
Back Pain Treatment in Bangor and Ellsworth, ME
If you’re suffering from back pain and normal health plan solutions aren’t working, call Back in Balance Wellness Center to schedule an appointment at (207) 947-8077. We can go over the details of your case, what’s going on, and possible options for more effective treatment. Our chiropractic approach works to produce real recovery versus just temporarily relieving pain, and then it comes back. Don’t suffer in silence, especially after a car accident injury; we can help!
