Can chiropractic pain management therapy help to lower the medication costs for my arthritis? In many cases, yes it can. Chiropractic care can help to align your body, making it possible for you to move better with fewer limitations. Once you can move about more easily, you’ll need fewer medications to relieve pain and inflammation.
Regular pain management therapy by a chiropractic caregiver can also help in preventing the onset of arthritis and its damaging results on your body. This type of preventative care is one of the most vital benefits of treating arthritis with chiropractic treatments. The therapies provided through chiropractic care will positively impact your exercise levels, diet and physical alignment, countering the potential health issues that arise from arthritis. These treatments will also help you to reach an acceptable weight range and develop a healthier immune system which is crucial to reducing the damaging effects of arthritis.
Chiropractic treatments focus on the ability of the body to self-heal. By adjusting dislocations of the spine and joints, a chiropractor can help you increase the range of motion of your body, enabling you to move more easily and with better flexibility. Supplementary nutrition and lifestyle choice guidance provided by chiropractors can help prevent the development of arthritis and the mobility issues associated with it. Since chiropractic care targets physical manipulation, your joints will be better aligned to decrease pain. The stiffness and discomfort caused by arthritis can be reduced with chiropractic pain management therapy.
With the onset of arthritis, the spinal manipulation offered by a chiropractor can alleviate fluid buildup around the joints. This, in turn, can decrease pain levels and provide better movement and flexibility. Chiropractic massage also helps with stiffness and make better movement possible. Cold presses and heat application also ease the pain brought about arthritis. You can also try electrical stimulation treatments, which stimulate endorphin production in the body, blocking the nerves that generate pain.
The decrease in pain and the increase in mobility that is made possible through chiropractic care typically results in a reduction of medications required by those who have arthritis. By reducing the use of prescription over the counter pain relief medicines enables patients to lower the amount of medications they take and the costs required to purchase them.
William Lauretti, DC, is an assistant professor at New York Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls, N.Y. He notes that chiropractic patients that suffer from arthritis show improvement without needing pain relief medicines. “A recent study [in Clinical Therapeutics] found that half of patients with low back pain take prescription narcotics [opioids], which is alarming,” he says. “But the study also showed that those who have chiropractic care are far less likely to use these drugs.”
If you are looking to decrease the medications you take to relieve the pain associated with your arthritis, contact Tieperman Health and Wellness at (214) 705-1799 today!
Pain Management Therapy Frisco TX
Frisco TX Chiropractor | Tieperman Health & Wellness
8760 3rd St
Frisco, Texas 75034
214-705-1799