More than 95% of all back pain is mechanical in nature – the result of spinal instability brought on by conditions such as:

• Repetitive stress
• Mechanical misalignments
• Poor ergonomics
• Trauma.

Over time, muscles straining to compensate for these conditions become inflamed, putting pressure on sensitive nerve fibers around the back, causing pain. Chiropractors make adjustments to the spine to help relieve this pain.

Q. So why does the pain keep coming back?

A. Because the conditions that cause the pain often originate somewhere
    else in the body, outside the region of the back.

For example, if one of your legs were shorter than the other, even by a few millimeters, it would cause your pelvis to be slightly out of alignment. For the spine to stand straight, your lower back muscles would have to work just a little harder on one side than the other to keep you perfectly upright. Every time you take a step, or run or jump, one side of the back is working just a little harder than the other. Over time, this repetitive stress would weaken those muscles, causing inflammation and pain in the lower back.

Treating the pain in the lower back may alleviate the symptoms for a while, but the repetitive stress would continue. Pretty soon, you are back at the chiropractor. Until you correct the bio mechanical abnormality - in this case, the imbalance in the length of the legs - the problem will never be completely cured.

Chiropractic adjustments to the spine help relieve the pain and restore stability, but do not always address and CURE the original source of the problem.

To do that, you have to go Beyond Chiropractic.