How Long Do I Have to See The Chiropractor?

"Why do I need continued chiropractic treatments for my back pain? Why can't you, my Fernandina Beach chiropractor, just treat it and end the pain forever?"

This is not an atypical question, and it's also quite sensible. The answer is logically simple, too, though dual: we are born with spinal issues or we acquire them.

BORN-WITH-IT BACK PAIN

Some of us are born with spinal issues that will be with us all life through. Such conditions as spondylolisthesis, transitional vertebrae, fused vertebrae, and spinal curvatures are unique to one's own spine. There is no path to "get a new back bone" if one of these conditions is ours. So we must learn how to use our spines so as to not cause pain. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic can deliver the spinal manipulation designed to alleviate your specific spinal condition. Then, you will want to think about its 

It is in these continued spine problems that we - you and your Fernandina Beach chiropractor - must work together for the best outcome, even coming in for occasional spinal manipulation. (1)

LIFE-ACQUIRED BACK PAIN

Some of us injure our backs. We do things that injure the seemingly healthiest of spines: falling off a snowmobile or ladder or wakeboard or lifting too much weight. You get the idea - things we do in our normal activities of daily living may injure us, and we end up with back pain. So, when we damage the spine to the level that we cause intervertebral disc degeneration, a herniated disc, arthritis, misaligned vertebrae, etc., we now will contend with a spinal weakness which may become the vulnerable link in our spinal health.

We all must maintain a strong, well-aligned spine and utilize the spine with the respect and knowledge of staying away from those activities that could trigger pain.

How? You and your Fernandina Beach chiropractor see each other occasionally. An occasional visit to Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for spinal alignment and assessment of healthy spine maintenance is helpful. Continued spinal manipulation after the initial pain-relieving care is even suggested as a way to obtain long-term benefit. (1) Truly, prevention is much better than having to go through repetitive treatment of Fernandina Beach back pain. It averts pain and suffering in the present and decreases the risk of further spine pain in the future.

PATIENT-CENTERED BACK PAIN CARE: CHIROPRACTIC

A new report reflected on the reality of low back pain being a major reason for disability around the world. It is persistent or recurrent for many people. It is not common that it just goes away and never returns. Luckily, chiropractic maintenance care or management treatment plan has been documented as effective in reducing the number of days of pain for some sufferers. Patients for whom maintenance care was recorded to be of high value described such care as “patient-centered” while cost, (un)availability of care, and fear of treatment concerned others. (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic strives to address all of these concerns which often go away as the back pain decreases.

Whether you were born with it or developed it, back pain is disruptive. Remedy is possible with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Just understand that there is a logical necessity and even benefit for periodic spinal manipulation and chiropractic care for certain spine conditions. (1)

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. William Hoffman on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the initial back pain relieving treatment with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the benefit patients find with on-going chiropractic care. 

Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic today for more details about your spine's specific condition and treatment plan for pain relief.