All About Back Pain Treatments

Low back pain is not necessarily an acute problem that goes away within 6 weeks.This can require patients to receive additional chiropractic care, along with any other medical services they may need.

The premise of chiropractic medicine is to be minimally invasive to the body and to enhance the body's ability to heal itself.

The goals of interventional pain management are to relieve, reduce, or manage pain and improve a patient's overall quality of life.

When subluxations occur, chiropractors use specific techniques to return the vertebrae into their proper positions or mobilize them so they can move freely. These techniques are called spinal manipulations or adjustments. Learn how many of the techniques are performed.

Manipulation under anesthesia is a noninvasive stretching and manipulative technique performed by a trained and certified physician to help relieve back, neck, and joint pain.

The American Chiropractic Association and the Choosing Wisely campaign released a list of 5 spine care procedures and tests to question.

Anticonvulsant medication may reduce neuropathic neck and back pain that originates in the nerves. An anticonvulsant may be prescribed as a first line drug therapy or an adjuvant medicine for spine nerve pain.