Chiropractor for Lower Back Pain Near Me
Dr. Barry Marks, Chiropractor Orange, CA
The Scourge of Low Back Pain
Did you know only the common cold is more common than low back pain? It’s true. Specifically, 80% of Americans over age 30 will suffer back pain lasting at least one week. Similarly, lost time from work due to back pain is a massive cost.
Obviously, back pain hurts your quality of life. When your back hurts it prevents you from caring for or playing with your kids. Likewise, lower back pain can keep you from working. Therefore, back pain is costly and needs to be addressed.
Chiropractors are Spine Specialists
Surprisingly, some people still don’t realize chiropractors are the best doctors for back pain. Without question, no other doctor has more training or expertise in treating back pain. Multiple research papers support this. Further, a quick look at medical training shows that MDs have very little training in musculoskeletal disorders. And they have next to no training in treatments other than drugs or surgery.
More importantly, patients speak. Chiropractic patients are very satisfied with their low back treatments according to insurance and consumer surveys.
Chiropractic for Back Pain
Doctors of Chiropractic seek to find the underlying cause of the pain and remove it. Often misalignments occur between the spinal bones that cause pain. Spinal misalignment also can cause nerve pain like sciatica or trigger painful back spasms.
The leading causes of low back pain are physical injury lifting, gardening, household, falls, car accidents, etc. Also, chronic sitting causes low back pain. In fact, “sitting is the new smoking” is a campaign to educate the public on sitting and it’s effect on back pain. Next, degenerative changes comprises many low back pain cases. This is arthritis in the spinal joints and/or deterioration of the discs between the vertebrae.
Manual therapies, spinal adjustments and exercises are successful at relieving back pain. Specifically, these treatments restore normal motion of joints, reduce muscle spasm and stretches muscles and sends signals to the brain to reduce pain.
Chiropractor Near Me
Dr. Barry Marks is a chiropractor in Orange CA since 1986. His treatment begins with an accurate diagnosis of what is behind the pain. Then, Dr. Marks provides therapies (heat, electrical stim, cold laser, LED, exercises) that calm spasm and reduce inflammation. Of course, he also provides manual spinal adjustments. The combination of therapies and adjustments works. And that’s why Dr. Marks is highly regarded by his patients.
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