At some point in their lives, 8 of every 10 people in Mooroolbark will suffer from low back pain.
The good news is that chiropractic care can be incredibly effective for back pain relief. In fact, The US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research recently appointed a panel of medical experts who reviewed some 3,900 studies on care for acute low back pain. The panel rejected bed rest, surgery, corticosteroid injections, and prescription pain-killers and muscle relaxers as poor recommendations for treating back pain. In contrast, they reported that spinal manipulations (chiropractic adjustments), performed by a chiropractor, “can be helpful for patients with acute low back problems.”
What Does Chiropractic Treatment For Back Pain Involve?
At Optimal Wellness Chiropractic, Mooroolbark Chiropractor Dr. Andrew Ziakas utilise hands-on spinal manipulation as well as other more gentle and effective techniques to restore proper alignment to the body’s musculoskeletal structure, thereby returning proper mobility to joints restricted by swelling and spasm caused by an injury, such as a fall, or repetitive stress, such as extended sitting with poor posture. In addition, while our initial goal is back pain relief, we put emphasis on stabilisation and prevention of future injuries through implementation of exercise and spinal hygene education.
Chiropractic care for back pain has proven to be so effective that a 1993 report issued by the University of Ontario, Canada found chiropractic care of low back pain superior to all forms of medical management in terms of safety, evidence of effectiveness, evidence of cost, and patient satisfaction.
Gentle, precise chiropractic care at Family Chiropractic offers Berwick back pain patients an effective and drugless means of preventing, decreasing, and in many cases eliminating the cause of their pain.