Pain Management
Pain Management in Palm Beach Gardens
Many people believe that reducing pain can only be accomplished through the use of medications. But that’s not always the case! At Preferred Chiropractic Center, we help patients minimize or eliminate pain every day. Dr. Steve, a pain specialist in Palm Beach Gardens, has over three decades of experience locating the underlying cause of pain and correcting it.
Recognizing the Source of your Pain
One thing patients don’t often realize is: the event they think caused their pain may not have been the original problem. It was, however, simply the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.
Past injuries and overuse can create inflammation, and if left unattended, scar tissue may form in the body over time. If those conditions are left uncorrected, someday you may bend over to tie your shoes and your back may go out, or you may feel acute pain. Tying your shoes didn’t cause the problem; it simply created a situation that alerted you to an underlying problem.
Our Approach to Pain
Dr. Steve in our pain relief center in Palm Beach Gardens will do a thorough exam and take X-rays, if needed, to locate the underlying cause of your pain. He’ll explain what’s going on and how we may be able to help, and he will create a plan designed specifically for your situation. For example, if your muscles are in spasm, we won’t want to adjust you right away. We’ll incorporate other pain management and healing modalities to reduce the inflammation and tension in the muscles. Once the muscles have eased up, we can begin to gently adjust. In fact, on most patients, he’ll do some kind of soft tissue work before the chiropractic adjustment. This helps to relax the muscles and allows the body to be more receptive to the adjustment.
Our adjusting techniques are mostly low-force, gentle techniques that do NOT create that “cracking sound” that some fear. However, hand adjustments are available for those who prefer that style of correcting spinal misalignments.
Conditions We Can Help
Our pain relief center has had excellent results reducing or eliminating pain in many types of conditions, including:
- Back pain
- Headaches
- Herniated Discs
- Joint pain
- Migraines
- Neck pain
- Pinched nerves
- Carpal Tunnel
- Sprains
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Sciatica
- Shoulder pain
- Hip pain
- Extremity pain
Our goal, as stated many times on this website, is to get you out of pain as quickly and effectively as possible. In most cases, we see a marked improvement within a couple of visits to our pain specialist in Palm Beach Gardens. If there is heavy muscular involvement and or scar tissue formation, we’ll generally suggest seeing you slightly more frequently in the first week in order to expedite muscular pain relief.