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The spine has 24 vertebrae with spaces in between, through which the spinal nerves pass. If the vertebrae become misaligned, chronic pressure may be placed on the nerves. This can block nerve flow to the vital organs and/or muscles associated with the particular nerve that is being blocked. Numerous studies have proven such nerve pressure or blockages to cause disease of organs. Chiropractic care has been used to correct disease without resorting to drugs or invasive surgery for over a century. Chiropractic care often succeeds in situations in where traditional medicine has failed, and frustrated patients often find relief after years of seeing a variety of doctors with little or no results.
Chiropractic offers three types of care. Your chiropractor will review these with you:
A beginning type of care designed to reduce or eliminate the symptomatic problem.
The second type of care is Reconstructive Care. It is a highly specialized Chiropractic care designed to correct the Vertebral Subluxation Complex and re-establish health. This care begins at the completion of Initial Intensive Care.
The third and most exciting care is wellness care, which is designed to provide optimum physical, mental and social well-being for you and your family. Chiropractic is the leader in this field and part of a team whose goal is lifetime health verses short-term sickness and disease treatment.
Inland Empire Accident & Injury Center helps patients suffering from the following:
- Headaches often begin in your spine. Poor posture or injury can force your spinal vertebrae out of alignment, pressuring nerves and blood vessels. When nerves send painful signals to surrounding neck muscles, those muscles tighten up and a headache may begin.
- Back Pain - Vertebrae are bones that protect your spinal cord. They can be forced or locked out of their proper positions (misaligned). Ligaments and muscles are supportive tissues that can be stretched, torn, or weakened. Discs are shock absorbers that can bulge, rupture, or wear down. Nerves, which carry the body's messages, can get stretched, pinched, or irritated.
- Lower Back Pain - Your low back is a vulnerable area, constantly under the strain of supporting your upper body. Poor posture, injuries, wear and tear, hereditary weakness, or excess weight can cause a variety of painful low back problems. Your low back is one of the three natural curves of your spine. If that area lacks strength or flexibility, your entire back loses support. This can put pressure on joints, nerves and discs. Your doctor of chiropractic looks at your overall health - focusing not only on your low back, but also on your lifestyle.
- Leg & Hip Pain - There are many causes of pain in the hip and leg, but research has shown that the most common cause involves spinal imbalances or misalignments which irritate local nerve fibers causing pain and muscle spasms. Tremendous demands are placed on your hips and legs constantly. During sleep your internal organs rest, but your nervous system and the muscles it controls never rest; they work 24 hours per day. During sleep you turn and twist, move about and change body positions every few moments all night long. During the day when you are performing your daily work or busy with other activities, even greater demands are placed on your muscles, nervous system, lower spine, hip and legs. Why? Because these form the mechanical support for the entire body and must give strength, stability, flexibility, and motion upon demand. It is for these reasons that the structural/mechanical balance of the nervous system and spinal structures is so important for health and life's demands. Subluxated spinal vertebra are found to be the most common cause of mechanical hip, back and leg pain.
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Disc injures can be serious causes of such pain. A disc is a small, oval, hard, fibrous structure located between the spinal vertebra. This can be injured and swell or misalign or rupture, causing nerve compression and pain in the lower back, hip and legs. Fractures can be another cause of these symptoms. Fracture of a spinal vertebra can cause injury to nerves and muscles resulting in pain, stiffness, swelling, limited mobility as well as numbness or a tingling sensation in the back, hips and legs. Organic diseases can also be found to cause these symptoms and sometimes lead to very serious health problems if not detected and treated properly.
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Sciatica - The term Sciatica refers to pain, numbness and occasionally muscle weakness in the area supplied by the sciatic nerve, i.e. hip, buttock, posterior thigh, calf and foot. The patient may experience a crawling sensation over the affected area and an inability to walk on his toes or heels due to muscle weakness. There are many possible causes for sciatica, but the most frequent cause has been found to be faulty alignment and mechanics of the lower spine and pelvis. Such faulty alignment serves to compress or irritate the sciatic nerve with a resulting painful inflammation of the nerve. Faulty spinal-pelvic alignment may result from a single fall, accident or unusual exercise or such structural deficits may develop gradually as part of an over all posture distortion pattern.
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Whiplash - When a sudden accident or injury hurls your head backward and forward, your neck gets thrown out of balance. The force can damage parts of your neck and reverse its natural curve. This may even cause pain in your shoulders, arms, hands and low back. Sometimes symptoms aren't felt until days, weeks, or months after whiplash has occurred.
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is most often caused by pressure on the median nerve just above the wrist. The Carpal Tunnel is named for the area of your wrist containing the carpal bones, the transverse carpal ligament, the median nerve and the tendons controlling finger and hand movement. Pressure on the median nerve may occur due to injury (for example, a sudden bending back of the wrist) or sustained pressure from activities like typing/keypunching, chopping, hammering or pushing.
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Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by fatigue, widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, and multiple tender points — places on your body where slight pressure causes pain. Previously, the condition was known by other names such as fibrositis, chronic muscle pain syndrome, psychogenic rheumatism and tension myalgias.
Although the intensity of your symptoms may vary, they'll probably never disappear completely. It may be reassuring to know, however, that fibromyalgia isn't progressive, crippling or life-threatening. Treatments and self-care steps can improve symptoms and your general health.
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