Gig Harbor Chiropractor Helps With
Lower Back and Neck Pain

What causes pain? Is pain permanent or transient?

Pain is transient, it comes and goes. You do not need to live with pain. When we tell Gig Harbor chiropractic patients that you do not need to live with pain, they usually have a confused look on their face and don’t understand what we’re talking about. PAIN DOES NOT NEED TO BE FOREVER!

Chiropractor Helps With Lower Back and Neck Pain in Gig Harbor

If you treat the underling causes of pain, you’re able to correct the underlying issues and the signal, which is pain will go away.

What structures can cause pain:

• Muscles
• Ligaments
• Tendons
• Nerves
• Discs
• Joints

When any soft tissue structure is irritated, such as a nerve, it will signal a pain nerve to activate. This is what causes pain. Most Americans will take a painkiller to mask the pain, this does not make you any healthier or fix the problem. The goal is to go to the underlying root cause.

Underline causes:

• Fixated joints irritating nerves
• Muscle spasms
• Tendon tears
• Herniated disc‘s

Fixator joints: When a joint complex does not want to move, it will cause immobility and overtime arthritis will settle and cause chronic pain. Arthritis is permanent but if there is joint space, you can create motion to decrease pain or eliminate pain.

Muscle spasms: anytime a soft tissue structure is irritated, or a joint is irritated, muscles surrounding the joint/nerve or soft tissue structure will go into spasm for guarding purposes. Utilizing massage therapy will increase global motion and decrease muscle spasms, decreasing pain.

Tendon tears: for example, in your shoulder you could have a supraspinatus tear. This will cause local pain, decreased range of motion and an increase inflammation. One of the most successful options for repairing tears is with PRP, platelet rich plasma.

Herniated disc: Anytime a disc is herniated, the best approach is decompression disc therapy, this allows vacuum distraction forces to rehabilitate a herniated disc

Recap: Its always best to go to the root cause of pain and only take pain medications for a short time so you can function with less pain. Do not turn pain meds into a lifestyle because it can turn into a multi-year ordeal.

Fox Chiropractic

Local chiropractor helps with chronic pain