According to an August 9, 2011 article on chiroeco, “In a new survey, chiropractic outperformed all other back pain treatments including prescription and over-the-counter medications, deep-tissue massage, yoga, and Pilates. If you have back pain you are probably old enough to remember Richard Dawson first yelling the “Survey Says” phrase on the popular 70s and 80s game show, The Family Feud. If not then it doesn’t matter. You just learned something interesting about American pop culture and game show history. So what does the survey really say?
A survey released by a leading consumer product rating and survey publisher in late July, found that 65 percent of those surveyed using chiropractic care for back pain said it helped a lot. According to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), this news reinforces the use of conservative care options such as chiropractic care in San Diego as a first line of defense against pain. Only 53 percent of respondents using prescription medications found them as helpful. “Additionally, about half of those surveyed who are using yoga or Pilates said those treatments helped a lot and only 28 percent of respondents using over-the-counter medications reported that they helped a lot.
Natural, conservative options like Chiropractic, deep tissue massage, yoga, and Pilates are most likely better and safer choices when it comes to relieving back pain. “Current evidence-based guidelines support the use of conservative care such as chiropractic for conditions such as chronic lower back pain.” One serious eye-opener was that only 28% of respondents said over-the-counter medications helped a lot. It has been known for quite some time that common over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAID) have serious side effects. One of these side effects is that an estimated 16,500 people die every year.
Neck ache is also very widespread and it can make your life unhappy. If you experience headaches there is a very good chance you undergo a common type of headache called “cervicogenic headache.” This type of headache is caused by a dilemma in your neck. One way to tell you might suffer from cervicogenic headache is to spot if any neck motions cause the headaches or increase their severity.
Also, take a good look at your posture in the mirror. Does your head tilt to one side or the other? Is your head posture bad or look off? In other words, does your head stick out in front of you instead of sitting back over your torso? You’ll probably need a trained eye like that of a chiropractor to see the problem. The chiropractors at New Century Spine Centers in San Diego are trained to detect problems in the spine and correct them with spinal decompression technology and chiropractic care.
According to the “evidence report” published by researchers at Duke University, “Cervical spinal manipulation was associated with improvement in headaches in two trials involving patients with neck pain and/or neck dysfunction and headache. Manipulation appeared to result in immediate improvement in headache severity when used to treat episodes of cervicogenic (from the neck) headaches when compared with an attention-placebo control. Furthermore, when compared to soft-tissue therapies, a course of manipulation treatments resulted in sustained improvement in headache frequency and severity. However, among patients without a neck pain/dysfunction component to their headache syndrome – that is, patients with episodic or chronic tension-type headaches – the effectiveness of cervical spinal manipulation was less clear.” These are important studies to consider when researching ways to get rid of neck pain and back pain.
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