Toronto Conservative Care Provides Back Pain Reliefand MRI Images Show it

May 23, 2017

Back surgery. Non-surgical care. What’s the best solution for back pain and leg pain?

Now, there is an age-old question for both doctors and back pain and leg pain sufferers. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre mulls it over from time to time and knows that Toronto back pain and leg pain sufferers do well with Toronto chiropractic care. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows the symptoms to look for that would indicate necessity for back surgery. Beyond those, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is skilled in the conservative care of back pain and leg pain to get the Toronto back pain patient’s desired pain relief.

Relief Possible Without Back Surgery

Medicine notes that back pain relief is achievable non—surgicall! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is happy to see this latest back pain treatment study. A group of medical doctors monitored patients with lumbar disc herniations (most at L4-5 and L5-S1). These patients were 38 years old on average, just the age when that really bad back pain episode seems to come on according to spinal researchers. These patients hurt with low back pain and sciatica that went into one or both legs. Several patients had previously attempted relief with physiotherapy and other medical treatment to no avail before this trial. (1) Toronto back pain patients at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre have heard this story before…or lived it! We find that so many of the Toronto back pain patients coming to the office have tried many other ways to alleviate their back pain. All they want is relief now. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is poised to give it.

Give Some Time to Treatment and Relief

These researchers found that conservative medical care (like bed rest and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, gels) granted enough time helped these back pain patients’ pain. They did not have to go through back surgery. Their MRI studies even demonstrate improvement as they improved symptomatically and experienced relief of their back pain and sciatic leg pain. (1) Note that the size of the disc herniation on MRI does not affect clinical outcome. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre says this all the time! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre has written many posts about this very topic: the size of the disc herniation does not matter! Neither early back surgery nor conservative care for back pain relief showed any significant outcome differences. (2) The average time for patients to recover from their back pain symptoms due to lumbar disc herniation was 13.6 months (give or take 5.4 months). (1) Lucky for our Toronto back pain patients, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre seeks at least 50% relief of pain in the first 30 days and discovers that 91% of our patients get relief in 3 months. (3) The authors caution their colleagues that such relief is potential and should be taken into account when deciding a potential back surgery if there are no indications for immediate surgery necessity. (1) Yes! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre helps Toronto back pain and leg pain patients when they desire non-surgical care for their pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre delivers evidence-based chiropractic care for back pain relief with Cox Technic.

Schedule your Toronto chiropractic visit today. You’ll find the answer to your question - back surgery or conservative care – and the back pain relief that results.

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