Arthritis Treatment in O'Fallon, MO

Our treatments offer relief for arthritis with spinal adjusting, extremity adjusting, and muscle stretching. Spinal adjusting and extremity adjusting reduce inflammation and increase joint mobility. Muscle stretching help improve mobility further and decrease spasm.

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. Osteoarthritis is caused by years of chronic wear and tear on the joints. Wear and tear come from aging, overuse, or repetitive injury such as manual labor.

Joint Pain: Arthritis can cause deep aching or sharp pain in the affected joint. You may notice this with certain movements, especially at work.

Stiffness: This may be the worst in the morning. It often improves within a few hours as you get moving around.

Reduced Mobility: You may notice pain with difficulty fully bending or straightening a joint. You may notice you cannot fully bend your knee, tilt your head back, or move your hips freely.

Crepitus: You may feel a grating sensation in your joints, similar to grinding.

Dressing: Putting on socks and tying shoes can become a pain with a loss of mobility and sharp pains from arthritis. The arthritis may come from your wrists, fingers, hips, knees, or your back.

Climbing Stairs: Many people with arthritis cannot avoid climbing stairs, and with pain plus the loss of mobility, it becomes challenging to climb stairs in their own home. This can be complicated by having to carry groceries while holding on to the rail for assistance.

Sleep: Arthritis commonly flares up at night. This can make it hard to not only fall asleep but to stay asleep. Many people move around without knowing in their sleep. Arthritic joints will cause pain while moving around during sleep.

Household Tasks: This can include doing dishes, reaching for certain cabinets, vacuuming, doing laundry, and even gardening. All household chores require some degree of mobility. Arthritis can hinder the ability to effectively get work done around the house.

Goals for arthritis treatment in O'Fallon include reducing chronic inflammation, improving and maintaining mobility, and stretching and strengthening, and prevent progression of arthritis.

Reduce Inflammation: Chiropractic adjustments improve joint function, which will help with pain and help slow the progression. This lowers inflammation.

Improve Mobility: Joints need proper motion to heal. Adjustments improve the range of motion in the joint.

Stretching and strengthening: After mobility has improved, stretching and strengthening of the arthritic joints and muscles will create resiliency, and make arthritis much more manageable.

Arthritis is from age, repeated injury, and lack of joint motion. Arthritis can progress to bone-on-bone. This becomes excruciatingly painful and severely limits mobility. Many times, surgery is required to get relief. The goal is to recognize the symptoms of arthritis early and seek conservative treatment before it progresses too far.