Dealing With Personal Injury Pain With A Stockbridge GA Chiropractor

By Elinor Hain


No matter what happened or how, pain from a personal injury can be lingering and intrusive to your lifestyle. Out of frustration or embarrassment, you may feel that seeking professional help isn't necessary. You may feel as though it will "go away" on its own. Maybe you took some ibuprofen but discovered that after a few days, the pain not only remains but possibly has increased. The truth is, chronic pain from an type of personal injury may not respond to traditional care and drug therapies can involve addictive pain killers that not everyone is comfortable with taking. The pain can continue even after your body seems to be healed. What you need is an effective way to deal with the pain from your personal injury from someone who can understand exactly what type of pain you're dealing with and knows the appropriate steps to take to get you on the road to recovery.

Types of Pain

Nociceptive pain is what follows when you have sustained an injury in your tendons, ligaments or muscles and when your nerve cells start sending false signal out to the spinal cord your your brain. The result is a deep and aching pain like that associated with chronic back pain, headaches, arthritis, or even fibromyalgia. Another kind of pain is neuropathic pain that is caused by damages in the nerves or loss of nerve function. This is associated with injuries to the spinal cord and it isn't all that easy to identify and define.

Chiropractic Adjustment Therapies

Chiropractic therapy is a much safer alternative to conventional drug therapy in terms of alleviating linger pain from a work or at-home injury. Specifically, spinal manipulation can assist people in recovering and in reclaiming their lives. If you have been recently injured and are still experiencing pain after you have healed, chiropractic care is probably your best bet. This is certainly the case if your accident occurred within the past year.

Manual manipulation of the spine gives you temporary relief of chronic spinal pain. Your chiropractor can also help you pinpoint the source of pain in other parts or the body and suggest additional adjustments or exercises. According to Spine magazine, 1.5 percent of workers with back injuries who first came to a chiropractor required surgery, compared to the 42.7 percent of those who first consulted with a surgeon.

Neck pain and certain headaches can be relieved cervical manipulation of the neck. Neck adjustment improves flexibility and motion in the neck. Meanwhile, increasing range of motion and reducing neck spasms relieves tension and reduces pain.




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