How We Help Neck & Back Pain

  📍 📍 📍 Hi, I’m Dr. Jacob Hendrickson, and I’m going to explain to you why you’ve been having neck pain or back pain, maybe nerve symptoms such as sciatica or migraines, possibly even tension headaches or as something else that’s been bothering you, and how chiropractic care can help with that. I want you to imagine that this line represents optimal health, and that’s us being in a true state of wellbeing.

Maybe you’re five years old, for example, and you’re running around in the world with. Nothing that’s bothered you ever. No health issues, no autoimmune conditions. No serious traumas, right? You’re feeling truly, truly, truly well. And as we go through life or cruise along through life, a lot of stuff takes a toll on our body.

Lifting, bending, sitting, maybe motor vehicle collisions, just random falls. Little accidents here and there. Childbirth, possibly foods we take in. Then we end up down here in what we simply call the hurt zone, which is not somewhere where we want to be. Over the course of this decline, obviously we have little aches and pains along the way, like little things that really don’t take us outta the game, but add up over time.

Now, this takes a serious toll on the body and on the spine, and my job as a chiropractor is to decompress your spine and make spinal adjustments to the problem vertebrae. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Get you better, better, better, better, better, and is close to optimal health. As we can, and then obviously have recommendations on what to do further because it’d be a shame if we came all the way back down here now this timeframe that it takes to get from here to here.

It takes roughly 90 days for adults. And why does it take 90 days? Well, that’s simply the time it takes for a lot of tissue to heal muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons, uh, intervertebral discs and nerves. For instance, if you got a really bad cut that needed like 50 stitches, well, in all reality, it’s probably going to be fully healed, scarred over stitches out after about three months where there’s no risk of it breaking open again.

Now, during the course of this decline into this area. The reason why you’re getting these aches and pains and then eventually ending up down in the hurt zone is because we stand on two feet all day and gravity pulls our spine down. So it does what it compresses our spine. And each one of these little things over time add more and more and more and more compression.

So because the spine gets compressed, the vertebra can start to shift. And when they shift. The vertebra are movable. They twist, they bend, and they can get stuck. And that’s what chiropractors call a subluxation. And when there’s a subluxation, the nerve holes can pinch the nerves causing nerve symptoms down your legs or possibly just cutting off nerve flow energy to the rest of your body, possibly causing health issues.

So as chiropractors, we decompress your spine and make adjustments to all of those problem vertebra, to uh, essentially get rid of those subluxations and get you back to an optimal state of health. And overall wellbeing.