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Essential Feature

Can regular
chiropractic care
prevent back pain?
This is an important question to answer
as 4 out of 5 people with back pain go
on to develop regular episodes in future
years. For over 100 years Chiropractors
have claimed that regular treatment can
prevent these reocurrances. Are we right?
For most of the 20th century medical

Medical Treatment for Back
Pain
Even now, however, back
pain treatment on the
NHS usually consists of a
brief course of physio or
medication which stops as soon
as the symptoms stop. If you have had
recurrent back pain you will be all too
familiar with the trips to the doctor,
prescriptions for strong drugs, referral to
the physio (after a wait of many weeks)
then being given a few exercises. You are
probably fed up with your back feeling
vulnerable and about to ‘go’ at any time.
You may even find that you’re limiting
your activities to avoid the things that
bring it on. If so, what can be done to
prevent the dreaded back pain from
returning?

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treatment, may help prevent longterm back pain from re-occurring.
Interestingly, those who did not receive
the continuing course of care lost their
earlier improvements.

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Preventative Chiropractic Treatment
Works
So the evidence seems to point to an
initial course of treatment over a few
weeks to get rid of the initial pain and
improve function followed by a course
of care over the next few months to
make sure that those improvements are
maintained. Here at Alba we use the best
available evidence to guide our treatment
and we generally recommend this sort of
plan in helping you get better.
If you would like to know if preventative
chiropractic care can help you then give

Well, new medical research, published
in 2011, suggests that an initial
intensive course of manipulation such
as our chiropractors here at Alba do,
followed by periodic checkups and
treatment for back pain has consisted of
bed rest and painkillers for back pain.
However, from 1980 to 2000 the number
of days off work in the UK due to back
pain doubled every decade, so this was
obviously not working!
At last, more recently, the guidance for GPs
started agreeing with what Chiropractors
and others had been saying, that active
treatment is best. Also, chiropractors
started accepting that painkillers and
anti-inflammatories were also helpful,
whereas
‘old-school’
chiropractors
tended to shun drugs completely.
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