Understanding the Different Types of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic care is a popular treatment when it comes to back pain. If you have spinal problems or experience back pain, most doctors recommend exploring chiropractic care as a treatment option to help you alleviate your condition naturally.

However, there is more to chiropractic care than simply treating back pain. Chiropractic care is also valuable in helping heal various other medical conditions. Massage and therapy treatments used in different chiropractic services help alleviate physical ailments like headaches and asthma. In fact, there are three types of chiropractic care available to patients, each utilizing different techniques and designed to treat different conditions.

For Relief

Most people who seek chiropractic care do so to attain relief from acute pain.  Chiropractic care can reduce pain in the body caused by an injuries, an accidents, or chronic medical conditions. Immediate relief is usually achieved, and chiropractors are also able to gradually help correct abnormal spinal curvature.

This type of chiropractor care is the most popular. In terms of frequency of visits, patients need to go in for treatment regularly to maintain pain relief. Depending on the kind of kind pain and/or the injury of the patient, the length of time and the number of sessions for treatment will vary.

For Corrective

Patients who experience back pain due to a spinal condition often go to a chiropractor for both pain relief and corrective purposes. After going through a relief treatment, patients will need to undergo several treatments to address correcting the abnormalities of their spine. Normally, this takes a longer period of time and is a more gradual process because spinal problems take a while to fully correct themselves.

For Maintenance

Typically, after a patient goes through either relief or corrective care, maintenance care is required to help regenerate the spine and reduce the chances of repeat injury. Maintenance care also serves as a preventative method by keeping the spine and muscles strong.

-Dr Sid
Esprit Wellness