American Family Chiropractic

Spinal Decompression
Have you tried chiropractic, pain medications, muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatory drugs, steroid injections, physical therapy or even surgery with little or no improvement? Relief may finally be in sight with a new treatment called Spine Decompression Therapy.

 This treatment  has helped thousands of patients suffering from back and neck conditions to become pain-free. Studies have shown Spine Decompression Therepy to be effective 80% of the time or more, even when surgery and other types of treatment have failed.

When a disc herniates, bulges or ruptures and presses on spinal nerves, it causes great back and/or neck, arm, leg pain, sometimes so intense … Continue Reading

Work-related sciatica is clinically challenging and an expensive problem for our health care systems. One recent study found that workers with sciatica are significantly more likely to be prescribed opioids for their condition.1 Another study found that workers with low back pain and sciatica showed the highest level of disability of all back pain patients.2

With these issues in mind, the orthopedic medicine department of a hospital in Norway has examined the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment with patients with severe sciatic pain. This new study3 looked at 44 workers who presented at the … Continue Reading