Lower Back Pain Relief

Lower Back Pain Relief & Treatment

Are you looking for lower back pain relief? Low back pain will significantly impact the lives of nearly 80% of Americans. It is the leading cause of lost time from work and is impacting more and more people at younger stages of life. Our current lifestyle, dominated by sitting, is perhaps the most common and ignored cause of low back pain. Repetitive motions and positions, even if it is not sitting, are very hard on the discs, joints, muscles, nerves and ligaments of the low back area. Low back issues are predominately progressive, meaning that they get worse with time. This is why it is so imperative to strategically support and strengthen the damaged area. Pain will often resolve, however, compensated mechanics and unresolved functional issues will often lead to accelerated deterioration, increasing pain levels and chronic inflammation which can ultimately impact your ability to be mobile and enjoy life. Unresolved low back issues eventually cause your legs to become weaker, filled with pain and often time affect balance.

New Patient Website Special

We’re Waiting to Help You

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for the disease.

How We Treat

Lower Back Pain Relief in Grimsby

Comprehensive Consultation and Exam

Our consultation and exam are designed to find the root cause and give you lower back pain relief. Recognizing that masking the pain with medication is not a long term solution we will learn what really needs to be done to heal the damage. Whether it is us observing the way you get in and out of a chair, how you walk, which muscles are dormant, how compressed nerves are or how damaged your disc is, we will get to the bottom of things.

We will ask you questions to learn about your history and what may have impacted your lower back. Jobs, sports, fitness, accidents even nutrition have all played a role in the state of your lower back. We need to learn these things about you in our consultation

Next, a series of exams that will assess your low back loading, your flexibility, your disc degeneration, your muscle balance, your nerve pressure and even your spinal alignment will be completed to leave no stone unturned. Once this is complete we will consider the need for any imaging.

Digital X-rays

Our office has state of the art digital xrays right on site. This allows us to assess how much damage there might be, how that damage is affecting things like the discs and nerves and what possible options are available to help you contend with the issues. Xrays can often be used when following up to determine the level of recovery a patient is making. Pain is only one indicator of spinal health. Objectively seeing and monitoring with imaging is a way to know exactly how things are progressing.

The use of xray is not taken lightly in our office. We are only ever taking the minimum number of views needed to do our best work and the digital advancements allow the patient exposure to ionizing radiation to be minimized.

Custom Therapeutic Exercise Plan

Since muscles, ligaments, joints, bones and nerves all so intricately connected, the most successful long term approaches to low back must involve proper muscle activation. Most people are familiar with the wording of ‘core exercise’ however that is often too vague and not specific enough for a person with damage in their lower back. A particular exercise that may help one person may actually be very detrimental for another.

Our custom approach to exercise prescription will make sure that proper areas are targeted for you and that you won’t be doing anything to harm yourself. As much as we are a fan of Google and YouTube, it is often too generic and not the right thing when it comes to low back pain.

Spinal Decompression

Contrary to popular belief, most low back pain is as a result of an unstable joint. The low back is functionally a stabilizing part of the body and not as much for large global motions like the hip or shoulder. Decompression may have a role in unique low back cases however it may take ligaments that are needing stability and create further laxity. If spinal decompression is the right thing for you, we will recommend the most reputable places in the area for you to seek this type of care for lower back pain relief.

Specific Chiropractic Care in Grimsby for Lower Back Pain Relief

Imagine your jaw wasn’t completely broken or dislocated however, it was misaligned enough to change the symmetrical way your teeth connect with every bite. A subluxation in your spine is just like that. The only thing that is worse with a spinal subluxation is that it occurs in very close proximity to nerves that all have a very important job to do. Subluxations in your low back can come slowly over time due to a repetitive job or they can come acutely due to an obvious issue like lifting wheel barrels full of dirt. Either way the subluxation affects the bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and nerves. These all work as a unit so when one is impacted the whole “symphony” is out of tune.

Subluxations often exist below the radar before they “announce themselves publicly with pain”. The issues that can result from low back subluxations are pain, limited mobility, disc bulges, disc herniations, sciatica, leg pain, groin and testicular pain, hip pain, walking difficulty, foot drop and even pelvic organ dysfunction.

Chiropractic is the best choice for low back pain as proven in several medical studies and published journal articles world wide. Patient recovery and satisfaction levels with chiropractic are greater then those for massage, PT, exercise, acupuncture and all pharmaceutical use. This is because chiropractic addresses low back pain at the root cause level while others focus more on masking the pain.

Google Our

Five Star ReviewsDoctorsFacilityTeamService

Common Causes of Low Back Pain in Grimsby

Disc Issues

A disc is kind of like a water balloon that sits between each of the bones in your spine. These are commonly injured and damaged in the the lower back. The disc has an outer wall that is a series of concentric fibrous rings and the center of the disc is like a marble with jelly all around it.

Bulged Lumbar Discs

The outer fibrous rings of the disc get weaker in a certain spot. The inner pressure of the disc can no longer be contained equally and the weakened disc wall begins to bulge beyond it’s normal perimeter.

Herniated Lumbar Discs

A herniated disc is a more pronounced type of disc damage where the inner jelly actually breaks through the weakened and damaged outer fibrous wall. This herniation may actually touch on a nerve and the pain can be severe.

Degenerative Disc Disease

Picture a brand new grape that is picked off the vine. This is analogous to a healthy disc. Now picture the grape slowly dehydrating and becoming like a raisin. This is what happens in degenerative disc disease.

Muscle Strain

Low back muscle strain is very common. It is often felt by the weekend warrior. To much gardening, helping a friend lift something heavy or even tweaking something at the gym. Muscle strains often feel relatively pain free at rest but hurt when moving. A compilation of strained low back muscles is the compensated alignment pattern that will often slow the recovery. Nerve pressure may also result from the compensated alignment. Chiropractic adjustments help facilitate a much faster recovery and heat or ice will often also be a suggested part of the healing process.

Spinal Stenosis

Spinal stenosis occurs when the amount of space in your spinal column diminishes and the spinal cord now has an increased pressure on it. This can have many different causes. It can come from excessive calcification and bone spurring, it can occur from subluxation and it can occur from direct disc pressure itself. People often experience continual pain when walking that is described like a chronic tooth ache and may find relief when they bare some of their body weight on a walker or even shopping cart. Spinal stenosis is conservatively managed very well with chiropractic adjustments and exercise protocols for stenosis.

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

SI joints are very important as they are the joints that bear the load of your torso and legs coming together. These joints are located close to small little bony projections that you can feel beside your tailbone. These joints are easy to irritate and subluxate due to the number of movements that they participate in. Pain in this area could feel achy or sharp and will often refer to the buttocks area. Chiropractic adjustments to restore proper alignment and movement in these joints are one of the fastest and most effective ways to recover. Stability exercises go a long way to help stop this from becoming a chronic and recurring issue.

Facet Joint Dysfunction

Facet joints are the joints in your lower back that prevent hyper extension (arching) and create some guidance in the rotation movements. These joints often get damaged in people who do a lot of arching in their lower backs such as gymnasts and people with weak or damaged abdominal muscles. Chiropractic adjustments are amazing at realigning the facets. Abdominal and gluteal strengthening are also recommended to stabilize the facets for long term success.

Subluxation

A subluxation is when the spinal bones misalign and create an irritation to the surrounding nerve system. A subluxation can usually be present for quite some time, much like cavity can, with out feeling it. Subluxations are detrimental for the bones, joints and also the nerves. Chiropractors are the most highly trained and equipped doctors on the planet to deal with subluxations in the spine.

Ready to Thrive?

Start Here

Frequently asked questions about Lower Back Pain Relief

When should I be worried about lower back pain?

The most appropriate answer is immediately. If you are feeling pain, there has likely been enough damage that it should no longer be ignored. Contrary to conventional thinking, passively medicating is not a good choice for low back pain. Long term success depends on active involvement and doing the right things.

What can I do for lower back pain relief in Grimsby?

There are some generic exercises that you can see in our videos here, however the most appropriate thing to do is consult with one of our experienced doctors to determine the exact pathway to recover from your individual situation.

How do I know if my back pain is serious?

Most back pain is a serious thing. Pain is often and indicator that something pretty significant is happening. Just like most pain in the body, ignoring it will usually result in it getting worse.

How should I sleep with lower back pain?

Ideally you want to find the least painful position and try and get the best quality of sleep you can. Sleep is when the body does a lot of healing and the quality of sleep will often trump the position. Many low back pain sufferers prefer a position on their back with a small pillow behind their knees.

What causes lower back pain?

Low back pain can be caused by many different things. Acute things like accidents or heavy lifting are obvious however less obvious things like desk work and standing on hard floors are often culprits as well.

How does a slipped disc feel?

The feeling is usually very sharp and your body is very sensitive when you shift positions. You may often have a sideways leaning posture.

How do I tell if lower back pain is muscle or disc-related?

This is a tough one to do on your own. Usually a contracting the muscle without moving any joints or changing position will isolate the muscle. Discs are most irritated when transitioning positions and the pain is usually very sharp.

Why won’t my lower back pain go away?

There are many reasons this can be the case. Most commonly, it is that you aren’t addressing the root cause and you are continually over burdening the back preventing it from healing.

Can a Chiropractor in Grimsby help with lower back pain?

Absolutely. Chiropractic has been proven to be one of the absolute best ways to alleviate low back pain.

What is better for lower back pain: a chiropractor or a massage?

Chiropractic care has been proven in many studies to be the most effective way to contend with low back pain.

How can you tell if your spine is out of alignment?

If you feel any pain, if you feel your range of motion and flexibility decreasing, if you have chronic repetitive postures at work or you sense leg or walking issues, you likely have an alignment issue.

When should I see a Chiropractor in Grimsby for lower back pain?

The sooner the better. The longer an injury is left un-contended with, the more challenging it can be to recover.

Start Now