Odds Are You Will Be Disabled By Back Pain – But You Can Overcome the Odds for a Better Life

• Are you currently experiencing back pain that’s impacting your quality of life?
• Have you in the past or do you occasionally?
• When the pain goes away do you assume that the underlying condition has also gone away?
• Have you never suffered with back pain and figure you don’t really need to get a chiropractic spine and nervous system evaluation because odds are you’ll be fine? Would you gamble in the same way with your teeth and never visit a dentist?

The latest statistics reveal that approximately 85% of Americans will suffer a disabling back condition at some point in their lives. The odds are against you managing to avoid this result, unless you take diligent, focused action to improve your spine and nervous system function.

This is critically important whether you’ve ever had pain up until now or not. It’s necessary whether you’re 70, 50, or only 30 years old. In fact, more essential than parents taking their kids to have fillings put in baby teeth that fall out, is having your kids checked early in life for nervous system compromising subluxations. This is especially true after any fall, sports injury, or car accident, or if they’re getting colds, ear infections, allergies or asthma, or attention deficit issues.

According to an American Medical Association study reported on last year in the New York Times, $86 billion was spent in 2005 alone on back pain treatment and yet back FUNCTION was not improved! $20 billion of it was spent on pain-masking drug treatment efforts alone with no ultimate gain, and in fact a net loss occurred due to the drug side-effects and addiction consequences.

Of course function wasn’t improved. Nothing was provided to most people that addressed their post-trauma, post-stress functional losses, only symptom management tactics.

What a tragedy!

But functional restoration and optimization of the spine and nervous system is what chiropractic, when practiced with the ideal focus and intention, is all about. We are masters of restoring and supporting high-level function and a high-level, dynamic quality of life.

Another recent study found that most 17 year olds already have cracks in their lumbar spine discs, which sets the stage for later bulges, herniations, chronic pain, and eventual surgery recommendations.

The good news is that almost all chronic back pain, degenerative decay, need for strong medications to manage it, and surgery to attempt to repair it can be avoided with proper care earlier in life.

The bad news is that most people won’t take action to care for their spine/nervous system conditions until they’re extremely advanced into permanent damage. Unfortunately, this makes complete recovery and restoration nearly impossible, even though we can usually always still help to some degree.

How can countless thousands of our patients, when we show them severe spinal disc and joint breakdown on x-ray that has been worsening for years to decades, tell us “Oh no doc, I never had a problem until two months ago”? This negative and sometimes depressing reality occurs because only a small percentage of your nervous system is dedicated to pain awareness. Therefore, massive damage frequently occurs without any awareness on our part even after seemingly minor car accidents or other injuries.

This quiet decline is similar to the damage slowly being caused by high blood pressure, poor diet, and excessive stress. Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are just a few examples of other conditions that brew undetected under the surface without alerting you to the accumulating damage but eventually steal your quality of life and often lead to premature death.

Don’t simply guess and hope that you’re doing okay. Your nervous system directs and coordinates every aspect of your life and it travels through and anchors into your spine! Don’t stick your head into the sand. Problems silently build up and eventually trip you up into the 85% with a disabling back condition and various other health losses.

Take the one key first step to knowledge that can set you free. Call us today at 559-490-9550 to schedule a simple, painless assessment that includes a computerized evaluation of how well your all-important nervous system is functioning. We can help.