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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP278 - Back Pain · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Speaker 1: Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with
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  Speaker 1: Balance Life Chiropractic. We've got doctor Harley with us.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, doctor Harley, Hey John.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to chat about back pain today, which that
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  Speaker 1: is something I bet a lot of people if you
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  Speaker 1: said back pain, give me something that you think of
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  Speaker 1: when I think of back pain, they would probably say chiropractors, right, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, that's kind of one of the initial things people
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  Speaker 2: think of chiropractors working on is back pain or if
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  Speaker 2: someone has back pain, like, oh, I should go the chiropractor.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, back pain is one of the
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  Speaker 2: number one causes of disability in our country, and probably
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  Speaker 2: all of people didn't think about like that's a good
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  Speaker 2: cause of disability.
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  Speaker 1: I never really thought about that, but I suppose it probably,
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  Speaker 1: and especially if that's something that you struggle with for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time, it can be debilitating, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that's where we see like kind of
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  Speaker 2: the opioid epidemic, we are getting better about that. Chiropractic
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  Speaker 2: is getting pushed more as a first line of treatment
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  Speaker 2: for major chronic back pain. And we've been talking a
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  Speaker 2: lot about men's health this month. Well, that is a
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  Speaker 2: big thing that a lot of guys deal with is
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  Speaker 2: back pain?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if if that's something that a person listening
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  Speaker 1: struggles with, chiropractic might be the answer, and I would
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  Speaker 1: encourage them to reach out to you. What are some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that people should think about like when
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  Speaker 1: they're when you're thinking about back pain and is a
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  Speaker 1: chiropractor right? I suppose if you got like ribs poking out,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's not Maybe that's not the issue. But there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of times where it could be. The
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  Speaker 1: could be the.
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  Speaker 2: Case, isn't it. There's a lot of different things that
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  Speaker 2: can contribute to back pain. It can be specifically from
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  Speaker 2: like your lumbar part of your spine, so like the
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  Speaker 2: actual spine part. It could be coming out of your hips.
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  Speaker 2: If your hips aren't moving very well, that puts a
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  Speaker 2: lot more work intention on your low back. It can
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  Speaker 2: be really tight hamstrings that when they're really tight, they pull,
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  Speaker 2: you know, straight down, so they're going to kind of
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  Speaker 2: pull your back down with it. Another thing we see
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  Speaker 2: a lot more is like weak abdominal muscles. I talk
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  Speaker 2: about this a lot with patients as we tend to
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  Speaker 2: as Americans not have very strong core. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we sit a lot more so, our back and our
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  Speaker 2: core muscles should kind of ying and yang with each other.
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  Speaker 2: Ones pull on one side, one's pull on the other side.
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  Speaker 2: They should balance. But when we don't have those strong
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  Speaker 2: core muscles, our back muscles actually are working harder, so
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  Speaker 2: they do fatigue a lot faster.
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  Speaker 1: So would that be something where you should stretch or
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  Speaker 1: what would you do to maybe not have that as
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  Speaker 1: an issue.
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  Speaker 2: So if it's a weakness issue, you need to work
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  Speaker 2: on your core strength, doing more abdominal type working out.
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  Speaker 2: If it's like talking like ham strings, trying to stretch
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  Speaker 2: the ham strings, get them to be more relaxed, and
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  Speaker 2: that can be coming from a weak core as well
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  Speaker 2: as their kind of opposites of each other when you
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  Speaker 2: think about our pelvic muscle system.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize how weak my core wasn't until I
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  Speaker 1: tried to Kayak. I have apparently a very weak core.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm done, I can't do this. Heidi
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  Speaker 1: was doing great, She's got a very strong core. If
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  Speaker 1: somebody listening is going, okay, I would like some assistants
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  Speaker 1: to find out maybe what I can do because I'm
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  Speaker 1: struggling with back pain. Like I said, I encourage them
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  Speaker 1: to try chiropractic, and I absolutely encourage them to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to you. What is the best way to connect?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, chiropractic is a good bridging point. If like you
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  Speaker 2: are coming with back pain, You're like, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: where this is coming from. We can assess your muscles,
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  Speaker 2: we can assess your spine and your hips, see what
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  Speaker 2: is really the contributing factor to the problem, and then
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  Speaker 2: go from there what's gonna be the best course of treatment.
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  Speaker 2: It's as simple as giving us a call to get started.
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  Speaker 2: Our phone number is six zero five two one five
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  Speaker 2: one seven eighty five. You can reach out to us
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  Speaker 2: on our Facebook page at balanced Life Chiropractic, or were
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  Speaker 2: going to a book online option on our website.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice and that website is super easy. Balanced life
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  Speaker 1: sd dot com