Carrolltown Non-Surgical Care Delivers Back Pain Reliefand MRI Images Show it

May 23, 2017

Back surgery. Non-surgical care. What’s best for back pain and leg pain?

Now, there is an age-old question for back pain and leg pain sufferers and doctors alike. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation ponders it from time to time and knows that Carrolltown back pain and leg pain sufferers do well with Carrolltown chiropractic care. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows the symptoms to look for that would send a patient to back surgery. Beyond those, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is skilled in the conservative care of back pain and leg pain to produce the pain relief our Carrolltown chiropractic patients want.

Relief Possible Without Back Surgery

Medicine notices that back pain relief is viable conservatively! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is enthusiastic to see this latest back pain treatment study. Researchers tracked patients with lumbar disc herniations (most at L4-5 and L5-S1). These patients were 38 years old on average, just the age that spinal research reports as average for back pain sufferers to have a bad case of back pain that’s been building for years. These patients suffered with low back pain and sciatica that went into one or both legs. Many patients had previously tried physiotherapy and other medical treatment without relief before this intervention. (1) Carrolltown back pain patients at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation have read this story before…or lived it! We notice that so many of the Carrolltown back pain patients coming to the office have attempted many other tactics to alleviate their back pain. All they want is relief now. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is poised to produce it.

Give Some Time to Treatment and Relief

These researchers share that conservative medical care (like bed rest and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, gels) given enough time eased these back pain patients’ pain. They did not have to go through back surgery. Their MRI studies even show improvement as they improved symptomatically and experienced back pain and sciatica relief. (1) Notice that the size of the disc herniation on MRI doesn’t influence clinical outcome. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation says this a lot! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has written many posts about this very topic: the size of the disc herniation doesn’t matter! Neither early back surgery nor conservative care for back pain relief showed any significant difference in outcomes. (2) The average time for patients to recuperate from their back pain symptoms due to lumbar disc herniation was 13.6 months (give or take 5.4 months). (1) Lucky for our Carrolltown back pain patients, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation seeks at least 50% relief of pain in the first 30 days and finds that 91% of our patients get relief in 3 months. (3) The authors advise their colleagues that such relief is possible and should be taken into account in the decision-making process about whether to do back surgery if there are no indications for immediate surgery necessity. (1) Yes! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps Carrolltown back pain and leg pain patients when they desire non-surgical care for their pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers evidence-based chiropractic care for back pain relief with Cox Technic.

Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic visit today. You’ll find the answer to your question - back surgery or conservative care – and the back pain relief that ensues.

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