Conditions Treated with Chiropractic
The back is a broad term that covers a large area of the body. It is made up of many tendons, ligaments, discs, muscles, and bones. Without a solid understanding of these different parts, it can be complicated to locate and address the source of the pain. The following explains some of the most common issues and their identifying features. It also explains how chiropractic medicine can help to resolve them. This is a general guideline to help you in your quest for effective treatment, but we highly recommend that you seek a professional opinion to properly diagnose these issues.
You know the old saying, “It’s a pain in the neck”? Well, when you live with neck pain long enough, you know it’s important to find the best chiropractor in Brick. Neck pain can make even the simplest of movements involving the neck, head, arms, shoulders, and back excruciatingly difficult. It can lead to headaches and difficulty using your body. Immobility resulting from neck pain can cause the muscles to become weak and to degenerate over time.
Disc bulges and herniations are conditions in which the outer edges of the discs, located between the vertebrae, are damaged. This causes the jelly-like center to bulge or be pushed out. This is a surprisingly common issue and it is often, but not always, very painful. Many people who have this condition feel nothing at all. The quality and intensity of it, for those who experience pain, depends on the type and position of the herniation. If the damaged disc is irritating a surrounding nerve, shooting or stabbing pain along with weakness in the legs is often severe.
It is important that this issue is properly identified and promptly treated to avoid further damage. A chiropractor in Brick will thoroughly assess your back to determine the extent of the issue and the appropriate treatment to prevent worsening of the herniation, and provide relief from the associated pain.
If you are experiencing pain that radiates from the back or buttocks all the way down the legs, you may have a common condition called sciatica. Many people look for a Brick chiropractor so they don’t have to suffer with the pain of sciatica, and many never achieve a long term solution. An untreated sciatic condition can continue to worsen and make the daily tasks of living go from difficult to impossible. This article is aimed at helping you to understand sciatica and explains how chiropractic treatment can help you to overcome it.
The shoulder joint and related structures are a marvel of nature and innate engineering. Most of the credit for the movement of the upper body can be given to the shoulder. It is made up of many muscles, ligaments and tendons so there’s a lot that can go wrong.
The hip joints are where the longest bones in the body, the femurs, attach to the pelvis. They are very important joints. Normally, they have a great deal of motion and are the main joints involved in walking and running. However, since they are used so frequently and are obviously weight-bearing, they are susceptible to undue stresses.
Carpal Tunnel
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is usually accompanied by sensations of burning, pain, tingling, or swelling in the palm of the hands and extends into the first three fingers and the thumb. Occasionally people also report a feeling of swelling in the hand even when no swelling is present. Patients commonly experience weakness in the affected hand and have difficulty with picking up small objects. This condition can have a major impact on a person’s lifestyle and in some sever cases, if left untreated, the damage to the median nerve can cause permanent loss of movement in the hand.
Headaches are not fun, and migraines are another level of awful. Living with either of these issues can make you feel grumpy, and in the worst-case scenario, leave you unable to function. Medication may help in the short term, but when the problem is ongoing or re-occurring, pills are generally not enough. The source of your headaches and migraines is usually structural, and therefore proper treatment can help you overcome this debilitating issue. Headache relief at our Brick chiropractic clinic may be the solution you are looking for.
Scoliosis is a bend or curve in the spine where a healthy spine would be completely vertical. The exact origin of the curve is often hard to trace. In the beginning it may be just a small bend caused by a simple misalignment of single vertebrae. Over time the body will begin to compensate, building musculature that will continue to pull the spine into lateral curves in order to ensure that the head remains level.
Whatever the cause, it is imperative that anyone with any type of arthritic condition see an expert chiropractor to determine if there are joints in the body that are either moving too much or not at all. Dr. Kawa, a function-based chiropractor in Brick NJ, is an expert at evaluating your spine to find where arthritis is occurring.
Chronic stress wreaks havoc on the body, and can eventually lead to hyper-tension and chronic back pain. The back pain is a result of tension and muscle spasms that occur when stress hormones are released. The tension will often accumulate in what are referred to as trigger points. These trigger points can be extremely painful and need professional attention to resolve. Chiropractors have the knowledge and tools to relieve stress from trigger points and to deal with underlying nervous system imbalances that may be keeping your body locked in patterns of stress and pain.
Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis that some doctors give patients that are experiencing certain symptoms like painful trigger points, brain fog, sleep disturbances, fatigue, depression, among others. However, it is not really a disease per se, but a label given to an unexplained phenomenon that could have a variety of different causes such as hormone imbalance, brain chemistry imbalance and nerve system disfunction.
