Chiropractic has been around for thousands of years, but is roughly 110 in the United States. In a recent article by Judy Foreman, Globe Columnist, she relates what chiropractors have been preaching for years! I must quote…

"The simplistic assumption is that lower back pain is caused by disc problems. But pain is actually a neurological phenomenon that is not occurring solely in the spinal structures associated with movements. When a person feels acute back pain, the central nervous system goes into high gear, becoming sensitized, meaning that nerves become hyperactive, turning acute pain into chronic pain. Once chronic pain sets in, any little movement can be excruciating. What exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy can do -- and surgery does not -- is re-train the brain and the rest of the nervous system to become less sensitive, Rainville said, allowing the feeling of pain to gradually go away.”

Hmm. Sounds like the typical visit in my office anyway. Maybe us “quacks” actually know something after all. Homage to chiropractic, physical therapy and acupuncture was among injections, medications and heat, ice applications for assistance with back pain. Perhaps these NEW discs and their insertion will help? Only time and research will tell. From a chiropractic standpoint, this still remains a last resort and the clinical ramifications the same; the cascade of neurological consequence that could occur relating to an actual disc removed and plastic inserted is beyond the scope here, but is what chiropractic physicians will continue to successfully manage.

Read the entire article here..

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