HEADACHE

DOWNTOWN SEATTLE HEADACHE TREATMENT

If you’re one of the 45 million Americans who suffer from chronic headaches, relief may seem unattainable. For some Seattle residents, headaches have become so common that they begin to seem normal. In 2009 over-the-counter medications frequently used to treat headaches, like Tylenol and Advil, cost consumers almost $2.5 billion. If you’re tired of dulling the symptoms of headaches with medication and would like to treat the underlying cause of your headaches in order to find lasting relief, it’s time to talk to one of our downtown Seattle headache specialists.

At Graham Chiropractic, we understand that suffering from chronic headaches can be debilitating and devastating to your overall health. There are a number of different varieties of headache, and numerous ways to handle them. Our goal is to determine the best, most effective way to treat your headache symptoms so that you can enjoy a pain-free life. Schedule an appointment with one of our Seattle headache specialists today, and find out more about possible treatments.

We will address your low back pain utilizing the following methods:

Specific and gentle chiropractic adjustments to provide fast and effective pain relief.
Instructions for home care exercises
Massage therapy to loosen tight and tender muscles
Cold laser therapy to reduce inflammation and pain and promote healing
Natural herbal and nutritional supplements to assist in reducing pain and inflammation
Physician assisted stretching to correct biomechanics and minimize muscular and ligamentous tension
Physical medicine to implement resistance and balance type exercises
Thousands of patients in the Seattle area have benefited from this combination of conservative care for their lower back pain. You can too!

Interesting Facts about Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain affects 80% of the adult population at some point in their lives and accounts for more work loss and disability in the United States than any other single ailment.
Lower back pain is the second leading reason a person will see a doctor in this country, only behind visits for the common cold. These statistics are alarming and represent a health problem that the entirety of our society faces.
Chronic lower back has reached epidemic proportions because of poor patient education and lack of proper diagnosis and treatment of this disabling condition.
The wait and watch approach recommended by many medical doctors leads to long term problems that are more difficult to treat. A combination of early passive and active physical care has been shown to be the most effective treatment for lower back pain.

Long Term Consequences of Bad Mechanics

Degenerative Disc and Joint DiseaseEarly studies downplayed any long term consequence of episodic lower back pain. Treatment for acute lower back pain often consisted of prescription pain medications, anti-inflammatory drugs, and muscle relaxants. This course of treatment is ineffective because the cause of pain is left untreated. Instead, the symptoms of pain are simply masked by the prescribed medications.Our clinic has seen countless patients who are frustrated with the ineffectiveness of previously prescribed treatment regimens and are searching for a new, more effective approach. If left untreated, over time the lower back just simply wears out. Often an MRI is ordered and surgeries are recommended. With a treatment approach rooted in pain management rather than structured biomechanical change, it’s no wonder low back pain accounts for the highest rate of disability and work loss in our country.Recent studies dispute the idea that episodic back pain is self-limiting and without long term consequence. It is now recognized that those who have even one episode of lower back pain are at high risk for future episodes.

Current studies have concluded that chiropractic care is the most effective primary treatment approach for both acute and chronic low back pain. The studies suggest that chiropractic care is also helpful in preventing future episodes of pain. This process of continual assessment and adaptation ensures that your health goals will be met.

At Graham Chiropractic, we integrate the best current research protocols for managing your pain into an individualized treatment approach tailored to you.

Journal Of The American Medical Association

It is unclear why more complex operations are increasing. It seems implausible that the number of patients with the most complex spinal pathology increased 15-fold in just 6 years. The introduction and marketing of new surgical devices and the influence of key opinion leaders may stimulate more invasive surgery, even in the absence of new indications…financial incentives to hospitals and surgeons for more complex procedures may play a role…” There is a significant difference in mean hospital costs for simple decompression versus complex surgical fusion. The cost of surgical decompression is $23,724 compared to an average of $80,888 for complex fusion.

-Deyo, et al., 2010