Chiropractor Port St. Lucie

How Soon Will You Feel the Benefits of Chiropractic Care?

Chiropractic care often involves spinal or other joint adjustments. However, we may also recommend diet and exercise regimes, or other therapies like acupuncture or massage, in conjunction with adjustments. We use manipulation to improve mobility in joints where you may have tissue injury or inflammation.

Most adjustments take only a few minutes and patients don't generally report any pain, agitation, or discomfort. In fact, most often, our patients are surprised at how quickly their adjustment is performed.

How soon you will feel the benefits of adjustment is really up to your body. Sometimes our patients report the area we target for adjustment report relief immediately as they get off the table! In other cases, a few visits are necessary before a patient reports progress and pain relief. Most often, though, results are achieved somewhere in between for the majority of our patients, with an ongoing regiment of chiropractic adjustments being out in place to keep the pain away.

Is Chiropractic Care Effective?

WebMD reports that chiropractic care is safe and effective for treating lower back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, and headaches which might occur from accidents or injuries or otherwise some sustained bodily trauma. Chiropractic treatment has also been shown to be helpful for some patients with osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.

Chiropractic care is common! About 22 million people visit a chiropractor each year, with about a third of these patients reporting that they see a chiropractor seeking relief specifically for back pain. However, chiropractic care can help with pain and injuries throughout the body.

Reasons To Consider Adding A Chiropractic Adjustment Regiment

Chiropractic care is not just for patients who have sustained injury...something as innocuous and common as muscle inflammation in both physically active and older folks can agitate the musculoskeletal system, which is exactly what a chiropractic adjustment aims to treat.

People can develop back or neck pain from simply sitting too long or in an uncomfortable chair. More often, though, we treat patients who have experienced some form of personal injury, either from a car accident, slip and fall, or workplace injury, and our goal is to help them recover with our personal injury care and rehabilitation services. Whiplash and other soft tissue injuries can be very painful and leave people trying to find relief. Today especially, many patients are concerned about becoming dependent on pain pills, and want a real solution instead of a prescription to mask the problem.

Car Accidents
This is a big cause of back and neck pain. Remember that your Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance will cover medical treatment, including chiropractic care, for up to 14 days after an accident. If you've been injured in a car crash and are in pain, please call us for a free consultation.

Slip and Falls
You don't know what happened—one minute you were just walking around minding your business, and the next you were flat on your back. Now, you're having continual back or neck pain, and may even be unable to work. If this sounds like you, chiropractic care or other therapies may be able to help.

Work Injuries
This is another common cause of injuries we see. People can get hurt at work in a variety of ways. Construction site accidents are common. Falling, being hit by heavy machinery, and lifting heavy objects are just a few of the ways you can be hurt on the job. Chiropractic care may be able to help you get back on your feet sooner.