Back Pain Treatment in O'Fallon, MO

We use a variety of techniques to adjust your spine and relieve back pain. Our techniques are safe, gentle, and effective. Techniques include manual adjusting, spinal decompression, and soft tissue mobilization.

Spinal adjusting improves the mobility of joints and decreases inflammation. Spinal decompression gently stretches the spine to relieve pressure on discs and nerves, reducing back pain. Soft tissue mobilization eases back pain by manually kneading and releasing tight muscles and fascia to improve blood flow and reduce tension and inflammation.

Major Trauma and Minor Trauma. Major trauma relates to a sudden injury. Minor trauma is more of a gradual occurrence that builds up over time.

Major Traumas are commonly from falls, poor posture, sports injuries, car accidents, and heavy lifting. Heavy lifting that includes bending and twisting commonly causes injury. Major traumas produce pain and inflammation quickly.

Minor Traumas are often overuse from repetitive motions. This can include desk work or texting, slouching, bad ergonomics, poor sleeping posture, and even stress clenching.

Common back pain symptoms include pain, muscle spasms, and restricted mobility. Other symptoms you may experience are pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in the back or into the legs. These are symptoms of a pinched nerve.

Work: Back pain can affect your performance at your job. Loss of range of motion can make it harder to stand, bend, and lift things at your job. If you sit at your job, sciatica can make sitting very uncomfortable for extended periods of time.

Sleep: Back pain can make finding a comfortable position to sleep in hard to achieve. Sciatica can make sleeping comfortably very difficult. Many of us move in our sleep, and restricted mobility can cause you to wake up frequently. 

Showering: Pain with restricted mobility can make it hard to properly clean yourself in the shower or while bathing. Showering requires reaching to various parts of our body. Difficulty in reaching these areas due to pain or mobility issues is going to make routine showering unpleasant.

Dressing: Dressing can become difficult with a loss of mobility or back pain. Bending down to put on socks and shoes can become increasingly difficult with less mobility, a disc injury, or a muscle strain.

The goal of treatment for back pain relief in O'Fallon involves three separate phases. Pain and inflammation, increased mobility, and strengthening and stretching.

Pain and Inflammation: This is approximately the first week of care. Our goal is to decrease inflammation, pain, and muscle spasm coming from your back pain. Once pain and inflammation are under control, we will focus on improving mobility. 

Increase Mobility: This phase of care is designed to restore range of motion in the joints and muscles. Our joints and muscles thrive and need proper mobility to heal properly. Restoring mobility decreases pain further and improves your ability to perform common daily tasks such as stooping down, dressing, bathing, and working.

Strengthening and Stretching: Once the joints and muscles have regained mobility, it is important to now strengthen and continue to stretch joints and muscles. This helps prevent future injury, and often times makes you stronger than before you sought treatment. 

If your low back pain goes untreated, it can heal wrong. If your back heals wrong, that is when it can cause a permanent problem to some degree for the rest of your life. 

Low back injuries that heal wrong can possibly lead to spinal curvatures, bone spurs, early arthritis, nerve pain, permanent losses in mobility, and in rare cases surgery. These potential long-term effects of not receiving care can significantly affect your time with family you love, the hobbies you enjoy, and your ability to care for yourself and those you care about.