Drug Combinations for McHenry Back Pain and Sciatica Not Effective
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a pill – or maybe better: a combination of pills! - and have your McHenry back pain or neck pain disappear right now? You aren’t alone! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic can empathize. Pain upsets our lives. Back pain prevents many McHenry back pain sufferers from working and from playing and from doing activities of daily living that must be done (walking, showering, cooking, cleaning, dressing, etc.). When back pain affects you or a loved one or friend, visit OrthoIllinois Chiropractic for relief and chiropractic advice about pain management without drugs when or if drugs are not working or are not in your treatment plan.
NOT WELL SUPPORTED: DRUG COMBINATIONS
Having drugs in the treatment plan may be successful for some back pain sufferers and not others. Pills may give relief for a few hours, days, weeks, months or not at all. A new Cochrane Review, one of the most highly regarded medical review systems in the world, reported that a drug combination, though possibly better for more pain relief, for low back pain and sciatica is not supported. There is no clear evidence, as a matter of fact there is a shortage of studies and overall low quality of evidence, that supports drug combinations for low back pain and sciatica. Additionally, the risk of adverse effects is lower with single drug therapy over combined. (1) Have you experienced a let-down from prescribed medications for your back pain? It is fine. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic works with back pain sufferers like you.
RECOMMENDED: SPINAL MANIPULATION
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic’s use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which integrates a specific type of spinal manipulation has assisted countless McHenry back pain sufferers find back pain relief. Spinal manipulation is recommended as first line treatment of back pain by the American College of Physicians and the American Board of Family Physicians. (2) Cox® Technic has been shown in federally funded spinal research projects to drop intradiscal pressures, widen the intervertebral canal area, and improve disc height. (3,4) In clinical studies, Cox® Technic has revealed that back pain relief happens in 29 days and 12 visits. Of course, more severe disc herniations and spinal stenosis may take more time than these averages, but relief comes. (5) For many back pain sufferers, 50% relief would be most welcome. How about you?
RESEARCH SUPPORTED: CHONDROITIN SULFATE, TURMERIC AND CURCUMIN
To boost the relief and assist our McHenry back pain patients, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic incorporated supplements into the McHenry chiropractic treatment plan. Natural substances like spinal disc-supporting chondroitin sulfate – shown to have “genuine anti-inflammatory properties (6) - and back pain-relieving turmeric and curcumin are helpful in the short-term as well as long term. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready to help you discover the right combination of treatment ways to reduce your back pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Dan Shuman on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his pain relieving treatment using Cox® Technic for a patient suffering with sciatic leg pain.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic soon. Together, we will find the right combination to most fully attain your McHenry back pain relief. It’s not a pill combination, but it is gentle and effective chiropractic care.
