Do you suffer from lower back pain? Back pain guidelines recommend seeing a chiropractor or other form of healthcare before medications such as relaxants or opioid-based pain relief.
Lower back pain is now the leading cause of disability worldwide
Back pain can be debilitating With so many suffering from back pain, often doctors don’t know what’s causing the pain, as most of the time back pain isn’t due to something like a fracture or an infection. It’s often due to a change in the way your back is moving and functioning, which changes the way your brain senses what is going on in your back.
Chiropractic care improves low back pain and may even stop the pain from becoming chronic. This is because chiropractic care improves the way the spine moves and allows the brain to properly sense and control the spine, heal, and prevent injuries.
There have been many research studies on the effects of chiropractic care on low back pain. A study has shown that the earlier someone gets chiropractic care the better their long-term outcomes. This is likely because chiropractic care changes the way the brain functions, and particularly affects the part of the brain that is involved with pain becoming chronic.
Chiropractic care changes the way the brain functions
This means that chiropractic care may stop the brain from learning to be in pain.
This study also showed that people who had regular chiropractic care, even when they were not experiencing back pain, had an average of thirteen fewer days of low back pain over the course of the year-long study, than those that only saw a chiropractor when they were experiencing back pain. In another study of 750 military personnel with low back pain, thirteen scientists explored what happened when they added chiropractic care to the usual medical care that they were receiving. In this study, they found that over six weeks, the group that saw a chiropractor had less back pain intensity and less disability compared with the group that only received their usual medical care.
What’s more, is that the chiropractic group was more satisfied with the care they received, they thought they’d improved more, and they reported taking fewer drugs to help control their back pain compared with those who only got the usual medical care.
Keep in mind that chiropractic care has so much more to offer than just helping you with your back pain. Chiropractic care is all about improving the communication between your brain and body so you can function at your optimal potential.
So, if you want to keep your back pain at bay, or you simply want to function at your best, see your family chiropractor because the research suggests that your spine and brain will love you for it.