Back Clinic Chronic Back Pain Team. Chronic back pain has a far-reaching effect on many physiological processes. Dr. Jimenez reveals topics and issues affecting his patients. Understanding the pain is critical to its treatment. So here we begin the process for our patients in the journey of recovery.
Just about everyone feels pain from time to time. When you cut your finger or pull a muscle, pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong. Once the injury heals, you stop hurting.
Chronic pain is different. Your body keeps hurting weeks, months, or even years after the injury. Doctors often define chronic pain as any pain that lasts for 3 to 6 months or more.
Chronic back pain can have real effects on your day-to-day life and your mental health. But you and your doctor can work together to treat it.
Do call upon us to help you. We do understand the problem that should never be taken lightly.
Back Pain Treatment: Carlos Hermosillo is a small contractor in El Paso, Tx, who’s known Dr. Alex Jimenez for several years. As a result of the physical demands of his job, Mr. Hermosillo often experiences lower back pain and back pain symptoms which tremendously limit his ability to perform his normal physical activities, fortunately, Dr. Alex Jimenez provides him with the chiropractic care he regularly needs to return to work as soon as possible. After being involved in an accident, Carlos Hermosillo once again turned to chiropractic care for relief of his symptoms. Mr. Hermosillo highly recommends Dr. Alex Jimenez as the non surgical choice for back pain treatment.
Back pain can originate from the muscles, nerves, bones, joints or other structures in the spine. Internal structures such as the gallbladder, pancreas, aorta, and kidneys may also cause referred pain in the back. The management goals when treating back pain are to achieve maximal reduction in pain intensity as rapidly as possible, to restore the individual’s ability to function in everyday activities, to help the patient cope with residual pain, to assess for side-effects of therapy, and to facilitate the patient’s passage through the legal and socioeconomic impediments to recovery. For many, the goal is to keep the pain to a manageable level to progress with rehabilitation, which then can lead to long-term pain relief.
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Herniated Disc Pain: Araceli Pizana started chiropractic care with Dr. Alex Jimenez due to chronic back pain symptoms associated with a herniated disc. Before finding the right alternative treatment option with Dr. Jimenez, Mrs. Pizana struggled to perform her everyday activities. Araceli Pizana describes how Dr. Alex Jimenez’s exceptional care for his patients ultimately reflects on his ability to improve her overall well-being. Mrs. Pizana recommends chiropractic care for health and wellness.
Herniated Disc Pain & Chiropractic Treatment
Most healthcare professionals agree that degeneration of the intervertebral discs is the main cause of spinal disc herniation, where trauma and/or injury is considered to be the least probable cause. Disc degeneration occurs both with degenerative disc disease and aging. When the degeneration of the intervertebral discs occurs, the soft gel-like center of the disc, known as the nucleus pulposus, pushes through the outer ring of the disc, known as the annulus fibrosus. A tear in the intervertebral disc is what’s known as a disc herniation. Furthermore, the chemical material released can irritate the surrounding structures of the spine causing herniated disc pain.
Dr. Jimenez has teamed with the top surgeons, clinical specialist, medical researchers and�premiere rehabilitation�providers to bring El Paso the top clinical treatments to our community.��Providing the top non-invasive protocols is our priority.��The clinical insight is what our patients demand in order to give them the appropriate care required.
Our team has takes great�pride in bringing our families and injured patients only�clinically proven treatments protocols. �By teaching complete holistic wellness as a lifestyle,�we also change not only our patients lives but their families as well.� We do this so that we may reach as many El Pasoans who need us, no matter the affordability issues.
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Back Pain Treatment: Louie Martinez is a business owner in El Paso, TX. After experiencing a variety of injuries which affected his ability to perform his everyday activities, Mr. Martinez chose Dr. Alex Jimenez to treat his pain. Dr. Alex Jimenez restored Louie Martinez back to his original state of health and wellness. After receiving care for over 10 years, Mr. Martinez gained his range of motion and mobility through Dr. Alex Jimenez’s thorough chiropractic care.
Back pain can affect any area of the back, including neck pain (cervical), middle back pain (thoracic), lower back pain (lumbar) or coccydynia (tailbone or sacral pain) dependent on the segment affected. The lumbar region of the back is the most common place for pain, as it supports the majority of the body’s weight. Episodes of back pain can be intense, sub-acute, or chronic depending on the duration. The pain might be characterized as a dull ache, piercing or shooting pain, or a burning sensation. Pain can radiate into the arms and hands as well as the legs or feet, and may include tingling, or weakness in the arms and legs.
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Chronic Back Pain: Living with chronic pain can be exhausting and frustrating. But you can limit the severity of your pain�and the effect it has on you�with the following 3 strategies:
1. Become An Expert At Chronic Back Pain Management
No one pain management technique works for everyone; it helps to be open to trying all sorts of methods and techniques to diminish and manage your pain.
Keeping your pain at the lowest level possible will help keep you active, which in turn will minimize your chronic pain and keep it from getting worse. It will also help decrease the stress that is often associated with chronic pain. Common pain management techniques include:
Cold / heat therapy
Over-the-counter or prescription pain medications
A healthy exercise regimenAside from those above, which can be done on your own, some people find alternative treatments quite helpful, such as chiropractic care, acupuncture, or massage therapy.With patience, find what combination of treatments works best for you.
2. Find A Support Network
Chronic back pain can be an isolating experience. You may not be able to be as active as you once were, saying �No� to social gatherings, and limiting participation in some of your favorite activities.
As you become more isolated, your experience of chronic pain may increase because of less stimuli to distract you. You also increase the risk for developing mental health issues, such as depression.
It is encouraged you find a network of social support to limit the isolation effects of chronic pain. The key to a support network is not only finding people who are empathetic and supportive, but also finding a health distraction from the pain.
3. Practice Imagery Control Techniques
When treating your chronic back pain, it is important to remember the role your mind can play in reducing your perception of chronic pain.
In particular, imagery control techniques can bring you meaningful relief in a matter of minutes. You can start by trying �the altered focus technique.� Here is how to do it:
Focus your attention on a part of your body other than your lower back.
Next, alter the sensation in that part of your body. For example, you can imagine your hands becoming cold or warm (whichever feels better).
Hold this sensation in your hands for several minutes, and your experience of pain will likely diminish.You can practice these techniques wherever, and however often, you want.If the above three strategies don�t help reduce your chronic pain, don�t despair. Instead, ask your doctor for a referral to a pain specialist to discuss other possible options for chronic back pain relief. There are a great many approaches to pain management.
Talk to Dr. Jimenez about specific questions related to your unique health situation.
A chiropractor is a healthcare professional who focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disorders through the use of adjustments and manipulations of the spine.
What are a chiropractor’s treatment goals and beliefs?
Chiropractors seek to reduce pain and enhance the performance of patients as well as to instruct them on how they can account for their health via ergonomics, exercise and other therapies to deal with their pain. Chiropractic is usually categorized as alternative medicine or complementary medicine.
Fundamental Chiropractor Beliefs and Goals
Chiropractors focus on the intimate relationship between the nervous system and the spine, to provide overall health and wellness to the human body. They also hold accurate the following beliefs:
Biomechanical and structural derangement of the spine can affect the nervous system
For many conditions, chiropractic treatment may restore the structural integrity of the spine, reduce stress on the sensitive adrenal gland, and thus improve the wellness of the individual.
The treatment concept of chiropractic is to re-establish normal spinal mobility, which in turn alleviates the irritation to the spinal nerve or re-establishes altered folds, to reduce painful symptoms affecting the individual.
Conditions Treated by Chiropractic
Chiropractors use a number of non-surgical treatment modalities to treat patients with certain types of:
Lower back pain and/or leg pain (sciatica)
Neck pain
Repetitive strains
Headaches
Sports injuries
Car accident injuries
Arthritic pain
While primarily focusing on fixing neuromusculoskeletal disorders, chiropractors aren’t exclusively confined to problems with the nervous system and musculoskeletal system. If appropriate, these healthcare professionals will refer patients to medical doctors or other healthcare practitioners for treatment of lower back pain, or other injuries and conditions. Chiropractors have a local referral network or function collectively with other spinal experts.
Chiropractic Examination
In most regards, a chiropractic evaluation is quite much like conventional assessment procedures administered by all health care providers. With that said chiropractors examine function and the arrangement of the spine and then determine chiropractic therapies separates attention.
Chiropractic Exam of Back Pain
A first chiropractic examination for back pain will generally have three parts: a consultation, case history, and physical examination. Laboratory investigation and X-ray examination may be done if needed.
Consultation. The chiropractor meets with the patient and provides a synopsis of their back pain, such as:
Duration and frequency of symptoms
Description of these symptoms (e.g. burning, throbbing)
Areas of pain
What makes the pain feel better (e.g. sitting, extending)
What makes the pain feel worse (e.g. standing, lifting)
Case history. The chiropractor identifies the area(s) of complaint and the nature of the spine pain by asking questions and learning more about different regions of the patient’s background, including:
Family background
Dietary customs
Past background of other therapies (chiropractic, osteopathic, medical and other)
Occupational history
Psychosocial history
Other places to probe, frequently based on responses to preceding questions
Physical evaluation. A chiropractor may use a variety of methods to determine the spinal sections which require chiropractic treatments, including but not limited to, static and motion palpation techniques ascertaining spinal segments which are hypo cellular (restricted in their motion) or fixated. Depending on the results of the evaluation, extra diagnostic tests may be used by a chiropractor, for example:
X-ray to locate subluxations (the altered position of the vertebra)
A device that detects the temperature of their skin in the paraspinal area to identify spinal areas having a substantial temperature variance which needs manipulation.
Many chiropractors use a holistic, biomechanical concept of treating the bipedal structure completely, in an effort to balance the arrangement from the feet upwards.
Chiropractors are usually trained in multiple procedures of evaluating lower back pain, for example:
Evaluation and management solutions. Chiropractors are trained in examining the joints, bones, muscles and tendons of the body with the objective of imagining tenderness any misalignment, asymmetry, defects or other issues.
Neurologic and other common physical examination procedures. Chiropractors are trained to perform a variety of neurologic tests (nerve root compression/tension, engine strength, coordination, deep tendon and pathological reflexes, etc.) and are proficient in doing orthopedic, cardiovascular and several other frequent assessments.
Specialized assessment. Chiropractors are trained to assess range of motion, stability, muscle strength, muscle tone along with other assessments.
Common diagnostic studies. Chiropractors are trained in use of diagnostic tools and studies like radiography (X-rays), laboratory diagnostics and neurodiagnostics.
The scope of our information is limited to chiropractic and spinal injuries and conditions. To discuss options on the subject matter, please feel free to ask Dr. Jimenez or contact us at 915-850-0900 .�
By Dr. Alex Jimenez
Additional Topics: Wellness
Overall health and wellness are essential towards maintaining the proper mental and physical balance in the body. From eating a balanced nutrition as well as exercising and participating in physical activities, to sleeping a healthy amount of time on a regular basis, following the best health and wellness tips can ultimately help maintain overall well-being. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can go a long way towards helping people become healthy.
Spinal decompression therapy involves the stretching of the spine, using a traction table or similar device, with the objective of relieving back pain and/or leg pain.
What is spinal decompression therapy?
This process is known as nonsurgical, spinal decompression therapy (as opposed to surgical spinal decompression like laminectomy and microdiscectomy). This article offers an overview of nonsurgical spinal decompression therapy and its role in treatment of lower back pain and neck pain.
Theory of Spinal Decompression Therapy
Spinal decompression devices use the exact fundamental principle of spinal traction that’s been provided by chiropractors, osteopaths, and other appropriately trained health professionals for many decades. Both traction and decompression therapies are applied together with the aims of relieving pain and promoting the best healing environment for bulging, degenerating, or herniated discs.
Spinal decompression is a type of traction treatment applied to the spine in an attempt to result in several theoretical benefits such as to create a negative intradiscal pressure to promote retraction or repositioning of the herniated or bulging disc material and to produce a reduce pressure in the disc that will cause an influx of recovery nutrients and other substances into the disk.
Clinical Evidence
While the fundamental concept of spinal decompression is broadly accepted as legitimate, there’s a shortage of evidence supporting decompression therapy as being efficacious. There are a number of dangers.
Though some studies that don’t include control groups conclude that decompression treatment is effective, the few that do normally conclude that mechanized spinal decompression is not any greater than sham decompression. Thus, there’s insufficient evidence that spinal decompression therapy is as effective, or even more effective, compared to less expensive manual approaches in treating back pain or injured herniated discs.
An overview of medical literature so far suggests that most clinical trials assessing the effectiveness of spinal decompression therapy or traction were lacking in a couple of regions, such as inadequate numbers of topics to create a statistically valid conclusion, lack of blinding (the individual or provider knows the therapy given), no regard to a placebo group (known as a sham controlled study), or absence of comparison to a treatment substitute. At the time of this report, few clinical studies of spinal decompression therapy have been published in peer reviewed journals.
How Spinal Decompression Works
In nonsurgical spinal decompression therapy, the spine is relaxed and stretched intermittently in a controlled way. The concept is that this process creates a negative intradiscal pressure (pressure inside the disc itself), which is thought to have two possible benefits: pull the herniated or bulging disc material back into the disk; and promote the passage of healing nutrients, into the disc and fosters a better recovery environment.
Spinal Decompression Session
During spinal decompression treatment for the lower spine (lumbar spine), patients stay clothed and lie on a motorized table, the lower half of that which can move. First, a�harness is placed round the hips and can be connected to the lower table close to the toes. The top region of the table then remains in a fixed position while the lower part, where the individual is harnessed, slides back and forth to offer the traction and relaxation.
One difference between different decompression therapies is the patient’s place on the table:
Some devices place the patient in the prone position on the desk, lying down face (e.g. VAX-D)
Some devices have the patient lying supine, face up (e.g. DRX9000)
The patient shouldn’t feel pain during or after the decompression therapy although they should feel stretch in the spine.
Treatment Collection and Costs
While spinal decompression therapy could be advocated as a potential treatment for a number of lower back pain conditions, just like all lower back pain remedies, it’s the patient’s decision whether or not to have the therapy. Although the risk is reduced, the benefit of these treatments isn’t established.
Decompression therapy generally consists of a series of 15 to 30 treatments, lasting 30 to 45 minutes per day, within a four to four six-week period. Sessions are conducted at the practitioner’s office. The price of each session generally ranges from $30 to $200, meaning that a recommended series of remedies will generally cost from $450 to $6,000. Although insurers may cover grip, decompression therapy isn’t usually allowed although they are almost the same.
Sessions may include additional treatment modalities, such as electric stimulation, ultrasound, and cold and/or heat treatment applied during or after the process. Recommendations may also incorporate drinking up to some half-gallon of water per day, remainder, utilizing nutritional supplements, or performing exercises at home to boost strength and mobility. Research and find chiropractors in your area that could help relieve your back and neck discomfort.
The scope of our information is limited to chiropractic and spinal injuries and conditions. To discuss options on the subject matter, please feel free to ask Dr. Jimenez or contact us at 915-850-0900 .�
By Dr. Alex Jimenez
Additional Topics: Wellness
Overall health and wellness are essential towards maintaining the proper mental and physical balance in the body. From eating a balanced nutrition as well as exercising and participating in physical activities, to sleeping a healthy amount of time on a regular basis, following the best health and wellness tips can ultimately help maintain overall well-being. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can go a long way towards helping people become healthy.
Chiropractic is a healthcare profession devoted to the nonsurgical treatment of ailments of the nervous system and/or musculoskeletal system. Chiropractors keep a focus on therapy and manipulation of surrounding structures.
What can chiropractic care treat?
Many studies have concluded that massage therapies widely used by chiropractors are effective for treating lower back pain, in addition to for therapy of lumbar herniated disk for radiculopathy and neck pain, among other ailments.
In fact, when patients using non-specific chronic low back pain have been treated by physicians, the long-term result is enhanced by obtaining maintenance spinal manipulation following the initial intensive manipulative treatment.
Core Chiropractic Treatment Plan
The center of chiropractic usually involves treatment of common lower back pain conditions through manual therapy:
Spinal manipulation and manual manipulation. This type of manual manipulation identifies a short lever arm push that is applied to vertebra. It is also commonly called “chiropractic adjustment”.
There is firm literature support for chiropractic treatment of lower back pain. Many of the guidelines that are published urge manipulation to be contained in the therapy strategy in the maintenance of back pain.
Mobilization. Mobilization describes velocity manipulation, motion and stretching of the muscles and joints, with the goal of increasing the assortment of movement.
What Does a Chiropractic Treatment Plan Consist Of?
Most chiropractors start treatment throughout the patient’s first visit, although some might wait until the next appointment of the practice. Chiropractic therapy goals and recommendations can include some or all of the following:
Adjustments to key joint dysfunctions
Modalities to enhance soft tissue healing and pain management, such as ultrasound, electric stimulation, and grip
Strengthening and/or stretching exercises to improve muscle balance, strength, and coordination
Patient instruction to improve posture and motor controller, as well as potentially reduce anxiety
Other treatments like massage, heat/cold application, and education on ergonomics and nourishment.
Goals of Chiropractic Care
The chiropractor will establish Certain goals for a patient’s individual plan for therapy:
Short-term goals typically include reducing pain and restoring normal joint function and muscle balance
Long-term targets include assigning functional independence and tolerance to normal activities of daily living.
To accomplish these goals, a particular number of chiropractic visits will be recommended.
For most kinds of lower back pain, a treatment recommendation of 1 to 3 chiropractic visits per week for 2 to 4 weeks will be prescribed, followed closely by a re-examination from the chiropractor.
Chiropractic Evaluation of the Treatment
In the re-evaluation, the chiropractic physician will Assess the response to treatment and decide whether to:
Continue chiropractic treatment, if appropriate
Release the Individual from chiropractic care, if treatment goals have been met
Refer the patient to another health care specialist if treatment goals have not been fulfilled.
Chiropractic adjustment (also referred to as spinal manipulation) is a popular and recognized pain relief therapy for many types of lower back pain, sciatica, and neck pain. Knowing what to anticipate from the first visit might help an individual get the maximal benefit from treatment.
Since this profession has an unusually large selection of practice philosophies and chiropractic methods, people should feel comfortable asking all of the questions necessary to comprehend the chiropractic examination, diagnosis, and therapy plan.
The scope of our information is limited to chiropractic and spinal injuries and conditions. To discuss options on the subject matter, please feel free to ask Dr. Jimenez or contact us at 915-850-0900 .�
By Dr. Alex Jimenez
Additional Topics: Wellness
Overall health and wellness are essential towards maintaining the proper mental and physical balance in the body. From eating a balanced nutrition as well as exercising and participating in physical activities, to sleeping a healthy amount of time on a regular basis, following the best health and wellness tips can ultimately help maintain overall well-being. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can go a long way towards helping people become healthy.
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1. Become An Expert At Chronic Back Pain Management
No one pain management technique works for everyone; it helps to be open to trying all sorts of methods and techniques to diminish and manage your pain.
