Patients come to us for a variety of reasons, but one of the most debilitating causes for seeking relief through chiropractic care is back pain. Chronic pain in the back can prevent you from living a normal, healthy life, causing you to compromise your day-to-day schedule because you are in too much pain. 

At Chiropractic Natural Care Center, we believe in treating your back problems with a whole-body approach. Whether you'll benefit from massage therapy, spinal adjustments or a program of rehabilitation exercises, our chiropractor, Dr. Richard Henry, can put you back on the path toward a wellness and a pain-free lifestyle.

When many people are in pain, they may think they have a "bad back," or are simply getting older. While aches and pains can be a factor in getting older, especially if you don't take care of yourself, there are a variety of reasons why you might suffer from pains in your back.

If you suffer from a sports injury, it can affect your back in a number of ways from misaligned vertebrae and tissue damage. A chiropractor can help with these problems with massage therapy, adjustments and a series of strengthening exercises to help prevent further damage to your back muscles and spine.

A car accident injury is one of the most common reasons to seek chiropractic care. Even a low-impact fender bender can cause spinal vertebrae to get out of alignment. Spinal adjustments can help ease the vertebrae back into their correct position, allowing the damaged soft tissue around them to heal naturally.

Sciatica is a painful problem that can be caused by a car accident injury or simply falling and twisting the wrong way. When vertebrae are misaligned, they can pinch the sciatic nerve, causing painful symptoms in the back. Spinal adjustments can relieve pressure on this nerve, getting you back on the road to wellness.

What has been the most consistent cause of your back pain?

While exercise offers many health benefits, those who overdo or do not properly warm-up prior to exercising realize quickly that the benefits could come at a price in the form of a sports injury. Fortunately, most injuries can be effectively treated and most people are able to return to the level of physical activity they enjoy. Being aware of how injuries can occur and the most common types are an important key to preventing them. Most injuries are due to poor training practices, improper equipment or lack of proper conditioning.

How You Can Injured During Sports Activity

The most common types of sports-related injuries are strains or sprains of the ligaments and muscles that hold joints together. Sprains are common injuries that can occur in nearly all types of sports, such as turning an ankle, straining an elbow or hamstring. These injuries can cause sharp pain and require treatment until the sprain heals.

Tendons that allow joints to move freely are also easily damaged during sports activities. Improper warm-ups before weight lifting, baseball, football or tennis can result in a tear that can result in increasing pain when left untreated. Many joggers suffer torn tendons while running without a sufficient warm-up routine. Tennis players using an improper racket grip of swing causes shoulder pain or tennis elbow that can result in tendonitis or arthritis.

Dislocated joints can occur in any joint of the body and cause sudden, severe pain until properly treated. A slipped disc in the neck or back can occur from a fall during any sports activity and will cause pain when standing or sitting. The pain can cause shoulder and back pain that radiates down one side of the body. Improper weight training is a common cause of back pain and will require physical therapy from a qualified chiropractor.

Anyone who enjoys sports or exercise on a regular basis is at risk of developing an ache, pain or sports injury. There are many types of injuries, but neck, back, elbow and shoulder pain require proper care. 

Anytime you suffer a car accident injury, it can cause spinal misalignments to take place in the body. A spinal misalignment is a serious condition that irritates nerves, ligaments and bones and can be detrimental to your overall well-being. Any accident can cause misalignments of the spine that can damage nerves.

It is important whenever you suffer an accident to seek proper and professional chiropractic care to make sure your spine is healthy. While a car accident injury may seem minor, the health problems related to your spine from the trauma of an accident can last for years if left untreated. Our clinic advises patients to be treated for life-threatening emergencies, such as broken bones, serious cuts or abrasions, but once emergency trauma has been treated, do not neglect how your spine could have been affected by the trauma with attention from our chiropractor. 

Suffering long-term damage to your head or spine is common in car accident injuries, but our professionals in Ft. Lauderdale have years of service for accident victims. While you might feel healthy, you could suffer from a post-concussion syndrome which will cause reoccurring headaches for years as well as neck pain.

Whiplash will also cause severe neck pain that radiates into the shoulders and up into the head. A mild head injury left untreated will cause reoccurring headaches and migraines or dizziness to occur over a period of time. These types of injuries, while considered mild, can cause damage to the neck and spine after hitting your head on the steering wheel of a vehicle, a side window, and even a blow from an airbag.

Back pain is another symptom that can be corrected with proper chiropractic care. Following a car accident, the lower back can suffer from damage or even a slight misalignment caused from the impact of a car crash. Don't go through life with debilitating or minor pain. 

Have you considered chiropractic care following a car accident? 

Welcome to our first Chiropractic Natural Care Center blog post! Our Ft. Lauderdale chiropractor, Dr. Richard Henry, brings over a decade of chiropractic care experience to his customized patient care plans. His experience treating back pain, neck pain, and other injuries and conditions have helped improve patients’ health and wellness. Dr. Henry treats much more than just back pain and neck pain, though; he treats car accident injury, physical therapy, massage therapy, sports injury, and acupuncture cases as well.

Dr. Henry recognizes the importance of finding the source of any recurring problem to properly implement a plan that will help with rehabilitation and pain management. Our Ft. Lauderdale chiropractor has long praised the life-long benefits of chiropractic techniques for people of all ages. He provides service for those in the Ft. Lauderdale area and Olympic athletes turn to him for chiropractic care.

It is Dr. Henry’s belief that whole body wellness begins with a healthy lifestyle and smart preventive care. Chiropractic adjustments can be an integral part of preventive care because proper spinal alignment is key to a healthy body in many ways. For example, when the spinal discs and vertebrae are properly aligned, you will find that better posture and improved resistance to injury are some of the benefits!

One of the primary reasons for beginning this blog is that we really want to reach out to both our current patients and people who are considering chiropractic care for the first time. We plan to discuss some of the most asked-about subjects right here in upcoming blogs. We also plan for the blog to be a great additional field of communication with our patients. If you have questions about chiropractic treatment, please feel free to leave a comment. Your questions might just be the inspiration for our next blog topic! 

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