Chronic Pain

News for Midvale Residents Suffering with Chronic Pain

The dilemma

People of Midvale, Utah suffering with Chronic neck and low back pain face a serious dilemma. They must choose either to live with chronic pain or use pain killers and anti-inflamatory pills frequently or daily to mask the condition.

Long term use of any of those types of medications can be dangerous.  For example long term use of Nsaids like Ibuprofen can result in heart attacks, strokes, and other serious conditions. Tylenol can  cause sudden liver failure. Percocet may create an addiction.

The Alternative 

The answer to the above dilemma is to look to better natural solutions. Dr.John Ratliff  is CBP (Chiropractic Biophysics) trained and certified. He will evaluate the structural integrity of your spine because poor postural alignment puts added stress on spinal joints, sensitive nerves, and muscles potentially leading to degenerative arthritis, nerve damage, chronic pain , disability and poor health. CBP methods are proven to treat spinal misalignment  that often results in chronic pain.

 If you live in Midvale or in the Salt Lake area please take advantage of the special offer on the home page and see if your chronic pain might be helped by this cutting edge method of Chiropractic treatment.

Research

Chronic Spinal Pain: Results from a randomized clinical trial comparing Medication, Acupuncture, and Spinal manipulation (or Chiropractic adjustments). 

Spine, July 15, 2003; 28(14): 1490-1502 

The study is  a medical study published in the prestigious journal, Spine, July 15, 2003, which demonstrated the superiority of chiropractic adjustments over celebrex, vioxx, and acupuncture in treating chronic spine pain. 

A follow up long term study in a randomized clinical trial published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Janusry 2005, concluded that  patients with chronic spinal pain syndromes, chiropractic adjustments, may be the only treatment modality of the assessed treatment protocols that provides significant or substantial long term pain relief and health benefit.