Safe and Effective Pain Relief without Drugs or Surgery
Premier Chiropractic - Dr DeeDee Wampfler, DC
Research shows that one in five adults in the United States experiences chronic pain, and that new cases of chronic pain occur more frequently than new cases of other chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
Chiropractic is a unique, separate, distinct, and drug-less health care profession that seeks to find the root-cause of health conditions and pain. Those who seek chiropractic care first are 50% less likely to fill an opioid prescription and since chiropractic care is naturally a conservative treatment approach, it is often preferable over pharmacological and more invasive medical interventions.
Chiropractors look to the spine as the root cause of health conditions because the spine houses the lifeline of the body – the spinal cord, which is responsible for delivering messages to and from the brain to every organ and cell in the body. Spinal subluxations/misalignments interrupt this process in many ways. The spinal cord itself can become taut or stretched, causing cord tension. The nerve roots –where the nerves exit the spinal cord can also be pulled or stretched causing tension. Tension on the cord and nerve roots can lead to a direct decreased blood supply to the cord itself. Spinal subluxations also lead to disc degeneration, muscle loss and strain, inflammation, joint damage, and soft tissue degeneration. All of this impacts your health and your life.
As almost everyone at some point in their live will have some form of pain, whether mild or incapacitating, chiropractic as a separate healing profession is there to help you. For instance, an Oct. 2021 study from the Journal of Physical Therapy Science, showed that when the cervical lordosis (neck curve) was decreased to just under half of the ideal curve, spinal cord velocity was impeded or slowed. Corrective chiropractic care showed improvement in headache frequency, headache disability, improved balance, head repositioning, oculomotor function, improved range of motion, better pain-pressure thresholds, improved cervical posture, improved dizziness severity and frequency, improved pain and nerve root potentials, improved posture, improvement in depression, anxiety, sleep, fatigue, and fibromyalgia, as well as improved arm pain, and improved central somatosensory conduction time (conduction time of nerve impulses). The corrective care outcomes also continued improvements over time, vs. non-corrective spinal care.
Since abnormal spinal curves and posture create tension, shear, bending, and/or torsion loads on spinal cord tissues, it makes sense to start at the spine when looking for the root cause of health conditions. That’s why we see so many amazing improvements!! There is a health care team for you to help you reach your health potential without drugs or surgery – It’s Chiropractic!