Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre helps Toronto ankylosing spondylitis patients with their back pain.
Flexibility. It’s vital for a body to be flexible. One disease that may take flexibility away is ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis isn’t curable, but decent care by a experienced practitioner like your Toronto chiropractor may help diminish its symptoms and lasting effects. It’s an inflammatory disease that over time can cause your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything brings about less flexibility. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre seeks to maintain flexibility in its Toronto chiropractic patients.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients presenting to Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre frequently have straightforward conditions that make clear their back pain experience. Occasionally, more one-of-a-kind conditions like ankylosing spondylitis arrive, too. In a study of 3336 patients with ankylosing spondylitis, most ankylosing spondylitis patients were diagnosed in other healthcare settings instead of rheumatology practices. The majority were diagnosed by other practitioners while 7% were diagnosed by chiropractors or PTs. The median timeframe for diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis from a back pain diagnosis to a rheumatology referral was 307 days. (1) Your Toronto chiropractor understands the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will establish that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, being a Toronto back pain specialist clinic, will see ankylosing spondylitis patients as it is a spinal condition. Ankylosing spondylitis most commonly affects the spine, particularly the low back and occasionally the sacroiliac joint. Wherever tendons and ligaments fasten to bone (spine, breastbone to ribs, hip, shoulder joint), ankylosing spondylitis may occur. Ankylosing spondylitis doesn’t begin and does its thing then stop. It may come and go, be worse and better, be off and on, for months or years. Ankylosing spondylitis may cause fatigue, and men are more prone to get ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre may be able to help influence its fusing ways to help maintain as much flexibility in its fused areas and an upright posture as possible instead of the hyperkyphosis curving that often comes to an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW Toronto CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP Toronto ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing Toronto ankylosing spondylitis may be complex in some cases as symptoms may range from neck pain and stiffness to low back pain and hip pain. In some cases, imaging (MRI, xray) and lab tests are done in addition to the classic clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, mixing medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can draw some relief like pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your Toronto chiropractor successfully and enthusiastically collaborates with Toronto healthcare colleagues to help Toronto chiropractic patients find the gentle care they require.
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