There is little arguing with the fact that chronic neck and back pain will detract from the quality of your life. If you are dealing with such pain issues, there will come a time when you will need to deal with the problems in earnest.

To address your neck or back pain issues, you can probably narrow your choices down to two options. You can always go see your primary healthcare professional. If you choose that path, you can expect your doctor to choose treatment options that might be a little more invasive. That would include options like steroid/epidural injections, pain medications, and surgery at the extreme end of the spectrum.

Before you go with more invasive options, you might want to go see a chiropractor. In fact, you might want to search for a specialist called a “structural” chiropractor. We would not be comfortable making this recommendation without there being good reasons for you to choose this path. With that in mind, here are five (5) good reasons you should let a structural chiropractor help you with your neck/back pain issues.

What is a Structural Chiropractor?

Before going into the reasons seeing a structural chiropractor would make good sense, it’s important that you know the difference between a traditional chiropractor and a structural chiropractor.

A traditional chiropractor will take a general approach to deliver treatments for pain and discomfort. They will diagnose the cause and location of a patient’s pain and then treat the pain. To do that, they will usually use a combination of adjustment and massage techniques to reduce inflammation and muscle tension at the source of the pain.

A structural chiropractor uses a scientific approach to the treatment process with the goal of returning a patient’s skeletal structure back into proper alignment. To do this, the structural chiropractor will gather data (location and extent of injury/pain), spine measurements, and perform neurological and muscle testing) and use the data to develop a blueprint of how a patient’s skeletal system should look. They will then employ a series of spinal adjustments. In the end, they want a patient’s skeletal system to be in alignment with the aforementioned blueprint.

5 Reasons to Visit a Structural Chiropractor

As a way to motivate your to see a structural chiropractor, you are deserving of the right to know why doing this makes sense. In other words, you have the right to know what kinds of benefits you would get from seeing this kind of specialist.

Five benefits you could get from structural chiropractic care.

1. Pain Relief

Most people use chiropractors when neck and back pain comes calling. With pain relief as the number objective of a structural chiropractor, they will look at ways they can realign the skeletal system. In fact, they are looking for more than ways to realign bones for temporary pain relief. They are ultimately looking for the alignment that will offer long-term pain relief. To deliver these kinds of results, a structural chiropractor will focus solely on a series of bone/spine adjustments with most of the work being done in areas connected directly to the spine.

2. Improve Posture and Balance

The human body was designed to be a very precise machine. When the body’s alignment is as it should be, the individual will walk upright and display good balance. If the spine or some joints fall out of alignment, there is a good chance that the individual will develop poor posture, which will adversely affect their balance.

Through a series of spine adjustments, a structure chiropractor will make it possible for a patient to redevelop good posture. Of course, that would help that same patient to have better balance.

3. Promote Better Sleeping

With even the slightest hint of pain, most people struggle to fall asleep. They struggle with pain because their bodies are improperly aligned, which puts extra pressure on certain muscles and the spine. That extra pressure is what makes it difficult for people to find a body position that keeps them pain-free long enough to fall asleep and stay asleep. Simple structural adjustments by a structural chiropractor can make getting a good night’s sleep easier to do.

4. Help You Avoid Pain Medications

Given the addictive nature of most pain medications, taking such medications comes with some risks. Remember, pain medications are only good for short-term use. Meanwhile, they do nothing to help with the source or cause of the pain issue. If a structural chiropractor can realign your spine and relieve your pain long-term, you should be able to avoid ever needing to take prescription pain medications. That would be a big win for your health.

5. Improve the Overall Quality of Your Life

In the very first sentence of this article, mention was made of how pain adversely affects the quality of your life.

It can affect any and all of the following aspects of your life:

  • Your appetite and weight
  • Your heart health – blood pressure
  • Your sleeping habits
  • Your ability to enjoy physical activities
  • Your sexual prowess
  • You immune response
  • Your ability to concentrate

Ultimately, a structural chiropractor’s goal is to improve the overall quality of your life. With the right structural blueprint and bone adjustments to get there, vast improvement would be very likely.

If you are being victimized by chronic pain in your neck/back, it’s very likely due to structural issues in your spine or joints. A good structural chiropractor, using precision adjustment techniques, can solve your pain issues now and into the future.

For more information about how we can help correct your structural deficiencies, schedule your complimentary visit.