Why Do Children and Teenagers Need Chiropractic Care? Just like adults, children and teenagers can experience spinal problems, neck pain, and back pain. Dealing with these challenges can be difficult, and chiropractic care can help adolescents manage and decrease pain...
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Understanding Mid Back Pain
What Is Mid Back Pain? Mid-back pain is any pain or discomfort that affects the mid back or thoracic spine. The thoracic spine consists of twelve vertebrae that connect to the ribs and rib cage area between the neck and the diaphragm. Pain or discomfort in the middle...
Middle Back Pain Causes & Treatment
What Is Middle Back Pain? Middle back pain is any pain or discomfort in the thoracic spine (the area between your upper and lower back). The thoracic spine comprises 12 vertebrae and the ligaments and muscles holding the spine together. Middle back pain can be felt...
How Chiropractors Relieve Sciatica Pain
What Is Sciatica? Sciatica is a common condition affecting many people and occurs when pressure on the sciatic nerve causes pain, numbness, tingling, or other types of discomfort. The sciatic nerve is the largest in the body, running from the lower back through the...
Opioids and Back Pain: Do They Really Help?
For years, opioids have been one of the most prescribed options for back pain; however, a recent study published in the Lancet medical journal has found that opioid pain medications do not relieve acute low back or neck pain (recent pain that lasts up to 12 weeks) and...
Back Pain Causes and Pain Relief
Back pain is a problematic health condition, troubling countless individuals throughout the United States. It includes upper back pain, lower spine pain, lower lumbar pain, and nerve pain. For many Americans, pain relief medications are only a temporary fix for a...
What is the Best Way to Get Relief from Back Pain?
Back pain can sneak up and immobilize you. It can take away your freedom to enjoy an active lifestyle. The things that were once so easy now are extremely difficult to enjoy because of back pain. How do you get relief from back pain’s tyranny? Well, getting relief...
What is the Best Pain Relief for Arthritis in the Back?
Did you know that back pain is the most common type of pain adults experience in their life? It’s true, a study was done by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill confirmed that a minimum of 84% of the adults in the United States will definitely experience...
Beyond Adjustments: Chiropractic Electric Therapies
Chiropractors treat millions of people every year. Most of those people seek out chiropractic care because they are in pain or discomfort and are looking for a solution. While chiropractors have many tools available to effectively treat pain, many people still...
Chiropractic Treatments for Sciatica
Millions of people suffer from back pain each year, and for many of those, sciatica is the culprit. If you’ve ever had that shooting pain down the back of your leg, or that dull achy pain that plagues you if standing or sitting for just a little too long, then you...