Lower Back
Pain
Back pain is a modern
epidemic. 80 percent of North Americans will experience disabling
low-back pain at least once during their lives! At this moment
6.6 million North Americans are in bed with back pain, at a yearly
cost of up to $55 billion (lost work, compensation payments, and
medical bills).
The Standard
Medical Approach:
The
medical approach to back pain may include new diagnostic procedures
using X-ray, EMG, MRI, CKT (or CT) scan, bone scan, diskogram,
and fluoroscopy, but the standard medical treatments are the same
as they've been for decades: drugs and physical therapy (largely
ineffective), surgery (dangerous, with a high failure rate), bed
rest (ineffective and potentially harmful), and "Learning
to live with the pain. " As one of the world's foremost back-pain
researchers has admitted, "Conventional medical treatment
for low-back pain has failed," and "Mechanical therapy
" (The Chiropractic adjustment) is the most rational approach.
"
The Chiropractic
Approach:
Although back pain
can have a number of different causes (including infection, tumor,
or metabollic disease), every such sufferer needs to ensure that
his or her spine is free from nerve stress. Many have found Chiropractic
to be a safe, effective, and low-cost alternative for back, leg,
and disc pain. If you have already undergone back surgery Chiropractic
can help you avoid future operations.
Conclusion:
While the chiropractic
approach to back pain is attacked as wasteful and often useless,
a major research study found Chiropractic patients to have lower
total health care costs and to save, on average, $1,000 per year
compared with the general patient population.
Why are the results
so overwhelming in favor of Chiropractic over medical care for
low-back problems? Because painkillers, muscle relaxers, valium,
braces, physical therapy, and surgery are not designed to correct
spinal nerve stress. Chiropractic is!
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