Chronic Pain - Your neck and back

Chronic Pain Doctors: Are you prepared for a lifetime of painkillers?

Your neck has a hard job — holding up your head. Leaning into your computer or hunching over your workbench just makes its job more difficult.

Poor posture certainly contributes to neck pain. But the design of your neck also makes it vulnerable. All the interconnected structures that give your neck its incredible range of motion are subject to the wear-and-tear damage of arthritis and the "overstretching" injuries of whiplash.

The back is a well-designed structure made up of bone, muscles, nerves and other soft tissues. You rely on your back to be the workhorse of the body — its function is essential for nearly every move you make. Because of this, the back can be particularly vulnerable to injury and back pain can be disabling.

Four out of five adults have at least one bout of back pain sometime during life. In fact, back pain is one of the most common reasons for health care visits and missed work. Pain running from your back and down your leg is commonly known as Sciatica. It can involve an injury to a low back disk. It is generally considered a more severe issue than generalized back pain.

Traditional Approach

Medical treatment for neck and back pain is provided in phases. Generalized pain killers and physical therapy are the first course of action. If this is unsuccessful, cortisone shots or nerve blocks may be suggested. When all else fails, surgery to the spine such as fusing vertebrae with metal plates or removing the posterior walls of the spine known as the laminectomy may be an option.

Alternatives to Back Surgery

The degenerative affects of the spine are quite vast. But before you surgically remove bones from your spine or cover the symptoms with cortisone shots, you may want to consider a non-surgical natural chronic pain relief procedure that evaluates and corrects spinal imbalance. Very similar to a car being out of alignment and the tires wearing down incorrectly, your spine and the disks wear down incorrectly as well. This is known as arthritis and it can be reversed and healed depending on how fat it is addressed.

The NUCCA chiropractor restores balance to the body framework and relieves pressure to the degenerated disks and muscle system that may be the direct cause of your back and or neck pain. AlternaHealth Solutions three phase protocol corrects, stabilizes, and rehabilitates the misaligned spine.