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New Hope for Chronic Back Pain article

New Hope for Chronic Back Pain article

New Hope For Chronic Back Pain Sufferers

by Atlanta Chiropractic Doctor Timothy Dembowski

reprinted from Physician News Update, Winter 2008

A doctor from Atlanta is using a new medical breakthrough to relieve chronic back pain.

For lower back pain caused by over-exertion, strain or sprain injuries; treatments such as chiropractic, medications and injections may bring relief. But for those suffering from chronic and more severe back pain, there has been little rescue – until now. Dr. Timothy Dembowski, D.C. has recently brought a revolutionary back pain treatment to Atlanta: the revolutionary procedure is known as Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression.

A new medical breakthrough, spinal decompression specializes in treating lower back pain from disc bulges and hernias, sciatica, stenosis, degenerative discs, arthritis or facet syndrome.

It was discovered that the effects of spinal decompression relieved back pain and increased the height of the disc. This led to the development of this new technology, allowing us to rescue those with chronic back pain.

“For years, we’ve seen patients suffer despite multiple opinions and therapies. I’m thrilled to be able to alleviate my patients’ back pain with this new state-of-the-art treatment,” says Dr. Dembowski, D.C.

This non-surgical procedure is ideal for those with clinically unstable lower backs, who have tried medication unsuccessfully or have been scheduled for lengthy or alternative therapies. In fact, clinical studies have even shown spinal decompression is effective on patients scheduled for surgery or for those who unfortunately have already had surgery – and it failed them.

Dr. Dembowski D.C. continues, “the procedure is non-surgical, drug and needle-free and I’m excited to bring it to Atlanta.”

Shocking News About Back Surgery

The most common procedure for herniated spinal discs up to now has been surgery. Yet, a report in the New England Journal of Medicine states that “51% of all back surgery is unnecessary.”

Decompression therapy has provided relief for many patients suffering from the lack pain of herniated invertebrate discs, sciatica and stenosis.

Dr. Dembowski, D.C. responds, “as a doctor, I err of the side of skepticism, especially of anything with such profound miraculous achievement, but the majority of patients recover in a very short period of time with no documented side effects.”

How It Works

Non-surgical spinal decompression creates a negative pressure inside the disc, which draws in any bulging or herniated material, like suction. This stimulates the body to undergo a process known as “fibroblast activity,” producing fresh new tissues and cells. These new cells attach themselves to torn fibers of the disc that cause its contents to bulge. In essence, it’s like a bone healing. When complete, it is stronger than before.

More Info

You can learn much more by visiting our sister website: SpinalDecompressionAtlanta.com

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Relief For Atlanta Headache And Migraine Sufferers

Headache painSome studies suggest at this moment, 25% of the population has a headache! Headaches affect everyone in Atlanta, but when your headache or migraine is chronic and continues for months, it’s time to visit Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski to seek headache relief. Taking medications may temporarily mask the symptoms and provide relief, but if your headache is being caused by a problem with your spine, a chiropractor can provide longer lasting relief without the need for drugs.

Chiropractic Headache Relief

How Can A Chiropractor Treat Headaches?

Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski will interview you to learn more about your headache and diagnosis the cause. Depending upon the diagnosis, chiropractic treatment may be appropriate, although there are other headache treatments in the next section. Chiropractic treatments include:

  • Spine manipulation: the chiropractor can properly align your skull with your spine, eliminating misaligned bones that pinch nerves causing headache pain.
  • Muscle relaxation: the chiropractor may find the suboccipital muscles joining your head to your spine are contracted for extended periods, causing a resulting headache. Problems with neck and shoulder muscles may need correction.

Non-Chiropractic Treatment For Headache

Dr. Dembowski may recommend other non-chiropractic cures for headache, including changes in your diet, treatment of allergies, issues with your sleeping patterns, problems with your posture, issues with blood vessels in the brain, and more.

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Migraine Headaches Cause

HeadacheChronic headache can be caused by conditions like:

  • Pinched nerves in the neck
  • Intra cranial pressure that’s either too high or too low
  • Issues with the blood vessels in and around the brain
  • Infection
  • Brain tumor
  • Brain injury

Chronic Headache

You have chronic daily headache if on half the days in the month you have a headache, and the pattern lasts three months. There are four kinds:

  • Chronic migraine headache usually has at least two of these symptoms: throbbing pain, moderate to severe pain, worsens with physical activity, and affects one side of your head. Chronic migraine headache is often associated with sensitivity to light or sound, or nausea.
  • Chronic tension headache usually hurts both sides of your head, has mild to moderate pain, and may involve nausea or sensitivity to light or sound.
  • New daily persistent headache lasts for three days, hurts on both sides of your head. Your head feels a mild tightening sensation, not a throbbing.
  • Hemicrania continua includes nasal congestion or runny noise, a tearing of the eye, or swelling of the eyelid. It affects one side of the head near one eye, and never shifts sides. It is continuous without pain free periods

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Neck Pain Cause

Shoulder pain

Neck pain

Neck pain is most often caused by strained muscles. A less common cause is whiplash, the abrupt jerking of the head that disrupts neck muscles and bones. Whiplash most often occurs during auto accidents and sports.

Neck pain is sometimes related to shoulder pain or back pain, when the nerves in one area are irritated and cause pain in another area.

The more typical causes of neck pain are:

  • Poor posture. Hobbies, your job, or working at a computer, or reading are common reasons why people sit for extended periods with bent necks, which irritates bones and muscles to cause neck pain. Driving a car for a long period without a break can cause neck pain.
  • Repetitive motion at work or while playing a sport can strain neck bones and muscles.
  • Injury from whiplash, sports, and auto accidents is a cause of neck pain.
  • Age results in worn neck joints and arthritis that causes neck pain.
  • Spine disorders can irritate nerves where they exit the spine at the brain and cause neck pain.

Neck Pain Relief

If neck pain persists after a few days of self care, and you cannot touch your chin to your chest without feeling pain, then you should visit Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski. Also see the chiropractor immediately following an injury or auto accident that causes neck pain, or if you experience shooting neck pain that spreads into your shoulder or back, which indicates nerve irritation.

Chiropractic Treatment For Neck Pain

Chiropractic treatment for neck pain can include the following:

  • Spinal manipulation by your chiropractic doctor can realign the spinal bones to provide neck pain relief.
  • Cold laser therapy uses a low power laser to treat areas experiencing lower back pain, stimulating cell growth and cell regeneration.
  • Chiropractic adjusting with instruments where the chiropractor uses the Adjustor or Percussor to manipulate your spine and joints.
  • Acupuncture with meridan therapy can relieve neck pain. Meridian therapy is acupuncture without the use of penetrating needles. Electronic stimulation, laser beam, or pressure massage triggers the release of naturally occurring painkilling molecules called peptides and keeps the body’s normal flow of energy unblocked.
  • Spinal decompression with the DRX9000™ is a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure treating neck pain caused by disc herniations and degenerative disc disease.

 Self Treatment For Neck Pain

  • Hot and cold. An ice pack on your neck for a half hour, followed by a heat pad or hot shower, may provide neck pain relief.
  • Lie down. Your neck will appreciate a break from having to hold up your head.
  • Neck exercise. Ask your chiropractor to recommend neck exercises to strengthen and restore neck muscles. Avoid neck pain by doing neck exercises whenever you sit with your neck bent for extended periods while driving, reading, or working on a computer or your job or hobby.

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Shoulder Pain Cause

Shoulder pain

Shoulder pain

Shoulder pain is often due to soreness of muscles or the tendons that attach muscles to bones. Shoulder pain is also caused by problems in the joint where the arm bone joins the shoulder blade. Another cause of shoulder pain is soreness in the sac of fluid (subacromial bursa) that is under the shoulder’s highest area.

Pain often begins when you stretch your arm in an unusual position, sleep in a poor position, or have poor posture while working for extended times at a computer, hunching over a work area, or driving a vehicle for a long time without taking a break to exercise the shoulder. Other common causes are sports injuries, lifting or pulling something heavy, bumping, falling, or being in an auto accident.

A more serious condition may be indicated when your shoulder pain is accompanied by other symptoms. Tell your chiropractor if you also experience numbness or tingling in your back or arm, fever, sleeplessness, fatigue, or pain in other areas. Shoulder pain may actually be caused by nerve pain originating in other areas like your spine, neck or arms.

Shoulder Pain Relief

You should visit Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski if you can’t find should pain relief after three days of self-care, when you have chronic shoulder pain that lasts for more than three months, or you have shoulder pain following an injury or auto accident.

After examining you to determine what is causing your shoulder pain, Dr. Dembowski may recommend one of these chiropractic treatments:

Spinal manipulation or chiropractic adjustment is literally a “hands-on” approach in which your chiropractic doctor uses leverage and a series of exercises to adjust spinal structures and restore back mobility.

Chiropractic adjusting with instruments where the chiropractor uses the Adjustor or Percussor to manipulate your spine and joints.

Acupuncture with meridan therapy can relieve shoulder pain. Meridian therapy is acupuncture without the use of penetrating needles. Electronic stimulation, laser beam, or pressure massage triggers the release of naturally occurring painkilling molecules called peptides and keeps the body’s normal flow of energy unblocked.

Cold laser therapy uses a low power laser to treat areas experiencing lower back pain, stimulating cell growth and cell regeneration.

Spinal decompression with the DRX9000™ is a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure treating lower back pain caused by disc herniations and degenerative disc disease.

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Upper Back Pain Cause

Upper back pain relief

Upper back pain relief

Upper back pain is typically caused by myofascial pain (muscular irritation) or a problem with the joins in the upper spine.

Dysfunction in the joints where the ribs join the upper back spine can result in upper back pain.

Sometimes when a spinal disc that cushions the bones in the upper spine bulges out of shape, it can press on a nerve and cause upper back pain, although this condition is rare in the upper back spine (thoracic spine) and is more common in the lower back.

The more typical causes of upper back pain are:

  • Poor posture. People who sit slumped for long periods of time, such as while working at a computer, can develop upper back pain.
  • Repetitive motion at work can strain the muscles and upper back spine.
  • Injury from strains, sports, and auto accidents can cause upper back pain.

Chiropractic Treatment For Upper Back Pain

Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski will recommend the right pain relief treatment for upper back pain after examining you.

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Chiropractic treatment for upper back pain can include the following:

  • Spinal manipulation by your chiropractic doctor can realign the spinal bones and the joints where the upper back spine joins ribs.
  • Cold laser therapy uses a low power laser to treat areas experiencing upper back pain, stimulating cell growth and cell regeneration.
  • Chiropractic adjusting with instruments where the chiropractor uses the Adjustor or Percussor to manipulate your spine and joints.
  • Acupuncture with meridan therapy can relieve upper back pain. Meridian therapy is acupuncture without the use of penetrating needles. Electronic stimulation, laser beam, or pressure massage triggers the release of naturally occurring painkilling molecules called peptides and keeps the body’s normal flow of energy unblocked.
  • Spinal decompression with the DRX9000™ is a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure treating upper back pain caused by disc herniations and degenerative disc disease.

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Lower Back Pain Cause

As people age, bone strength and muscle elasticity and tone tend to decrease. The discs begin to lose fluid and flexibility, which decreases their ability to cushion the vertebrae.

Lower back pain can occur when, for example, someone lifts something too heavy or over stretches, causing a sprain, strain, or spasm in one of the muscles or ligaments in the back. If the spine becomes overly strained or compressed, a disc may rupture or bulge outward.

Ruptured-Spinal-DiscThis rupture may put pressure on one of the more than 50 nerves rooted to the spinal cord that control body movements and transmit signals from the body to the brain. When these nerve roots become compressed or irritated, lower back pain results.

Lower back pain may reflect nerve or muscle irritation or bone lesions. Most lower back pain follows injury or trauma to the back, but pain may also be caused by degenerative conditions such as arthritis or disc disease, osteoporosis or other bone diseases, viral infections, irritation to joints and discs, or congenital abnormalities in the spine.

Obesity, smoking, weight gain during pregnancy, stress, poor physical condition, posture inappropriate for the activity being performed, and poor sleeping position also may contribute to lower back pain.

Additionally, scar tissue created when the injured back heals itself does not have the strength or flexibility of normal tissue. Buildup of scar tissue from repeated injuries eventually weakens the back and can lead to more serious injury.

Occasionally, lower back pain may indicate a more serious medical problem. Pain accompanied by fever or loss of bowel or bladder control, pain when coughing, and progressive weakness in the legs may indicate a pinched nerve or other serious condition. People with diabetes may have severe lower back pain or pain radiating down the leg related to neuropathy. People with these symptoms should contact a doctor immediately to help prevent permanent damage.

Links About Back Pain

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Lower Back Pain Relief

Back pain

Back pain

You should visit Atlanta chiropractor Timothy Dembowski when you have acute lower back pain lasting over three days that doesn’t respond to self-care, or chronic lower back pain lasting over three months. You should also seek chiropractic help if you experience lower back pain following an injury or auto accident.

Chiropractic Treatment For Lower Back Pain

Depending on the diagnosis of your lower back pain by chiropractor Dembowski, he may recommend a chiropractic treatment including:

  • Spinal Decompression with the DRX9000™ is a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure treating lower back pain caused by disc herniations and degenerative disc disease.
  • Cold Laser therapy uses a low power laser to treat areas experiencing lower back pain, stimulating cell growth and cell regeneration.
  • Chiropractic adjusting with instruments where the chiropractor uses the Adjustor or Percussor to manipulate your spine and joints.
  • Spinal manipulation or chiropractic adjustment is literally a “hands-on” approach in which your chiropractic doctor uses leverage and a series of exercises to adjust spinal structures and restore back mobility.
  • Acupuncture with meridan therapy can relieve lower back pain. Meridian therapy is acupuncture without the use of penetrating needles. Electronic stimulation, laser beam, or pressure massage triggers the release of naturally occurring painkilling molecules called peptides and keeps the body’s normal flow of energy unblocked.

Other Treatments For Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain sufferers may get back pain relief with self-care treatments including ice and heat, rest, and exercise.

Although ice and heat (the use of cold and hot compresses) have never been scientifically proven to quickly resolve lower back pain injury, compresses may help reduce pain and inflammation and allow greater mobility for some individuals. As soon as possible following trauma, patients should apply a cold pack or a cold compress (such as a bag of ice or bag of frozen vegetables wrapped in a towel) to the tender spot several times a day for up to 20 minutes. After 2 to 3 days of cold treatment, they should then apply heat (such as a heating lamp or hot pad) for brief periods to relax muscles and increase blood flow. Warm baths may also help relax muscles. Patients should avoid sleeping on a heating pad, which can cause burns and lead to additional tissue damage.

Bed rest — 1–2 days at most. A 1996 Finnish study found that persons who continued their activities without bed rest following onset of lower back pain appeared to have better back flexibility than those who rested in bed for a week. Other studies suggest that bed rest alone may make lower back pain worse and can lead to secondary complications such as depression, decreased muscle tone, and blood clots in the legs. Patients should resume activities as soon as possible. At night or during rest, patients should lie on one side, with a pillow between the knees (or try resting on the back and putting a pillow beneath the knees).

Exercise may be the most effective way to speed recovery from lower back pain and help strengthen back and abdominal muscles. Maintaining and building muscle strength is particularly important for persons with skeletal irregularities. Your chiropractor can provide a list of gentle exercises that help keep muscles moving and speed the recovery process. A routine of back-healthy activities may include stretching exercises, swimming, walking, and movement therapy to improve coordination and develop proper posture and muscle balance. Yoga is another way to gently stretch muscles and ease pain. Any mild discomfort felt at the start of these exercises should disappear as muscles become stronger. But if pain is more than mild and lasts more than 15 minutes during exercise, patients should stop exercising and contact the chiropractor.

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Spinal Decompression

One of our two spinal decompression machines

One of our two spinal decompression machines

The DRX9000™ is a computer-controlled spinal decompression treatment that gently applies non-surgical decompression to your spine to provide back pain relief. As your spine is stretched, intradiscal pressure is reduced and nerves and discs are decompressed.

Spinal Decompression creates a vacuum effect within discs to make any herniated or bulging disc return to its normal shape, so it no longer presses on nerves causing back pain. Spinal decompression also stimulates induction of nutrients and oxygen necessary for healing by increasing circulation into the spinal discs and joints, further helping to reduce back pain.

Atlanta chiropractic doctor Timothy Dembowski uses spinal decompression to provide back pain relief to patients suffering from lower back pain, upper back pain, and neck pain.

Watch our spinal decompression video to learn how this pain relief treatment works. Also, watch the CBS Atlanta News video made at our office about spinal decompression.

You can also learn much more and read our spinal decompression patient testimonials by visiting our sister website: SpinalDecompressionAtlanta.com

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