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been satisfied or they would rather utilize a conservative route. One of the better conservative options would be chiropractic manipulation or chiropractic care in totality. Q: What conditions does chiropractic therapy benefit? Primarily what I treat in the spine is subluxation, a disarticulation of the vertebral joint. When vertebrae are moved out of place or not aligned, they can cause soft tissue to become swollen, strained or sprained and it can also cause nerve compression so the patient can feel numbness, tingling or soreness. We essentially are articulating and bringing back into order that subluxation. Additional to that are headaches, any type of extremity pain and there are a lot of secondary things that come from spinal ailments that measure out in pain.
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GETTING THE KINKS OUT Chiropractic Treatments Send Pain on its Way
Yes, they definitely do. Chiropractic treatments reduce pain and increase functionality and those are two qualityof-life measures that patients can hang on to. These are tangible measures so patients can see that their range of motion has increased and they are able to do activities with less pain.
By Leigh Farr For many people, chronic pain prevents them from living life to the fullest. Here, Dr. Gagandeep Arora, of The CORE Institute, draws on his career as a chiropractic physician to talk about the Q: Do you see patients DR. GS ARORA benefits of chiropractic who have exhausted therapy. In addition to other treatments and working with the general public, Dr. are looking for a solution that works? Arora treats professional athletes I do. So often I get patients who have including the Texas Rangers baseball taken the route of surgical consult, team. sometimes even surgery that hasn’t been successful. They’ve done interventional Q: Do chiropractic treatments measures whether it’s medicine or make a difference in the quality of injection therapy or another type of life of many patients? procedure and either they haven’t
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Q: What is the best way to find a chiropractic physician? You can ask your primary physician for a referral or you can go onto websites that cater to the marketing of chiropractic specialties. Q: Do chiropractic physicians go through a lot of training and certification? Yes, most chiropractic physicians like other healthcare provider physicians have an undergraduate degree and then they do a post-graduate four-year program. The first part of the program is analogous to medical training and dental training which is basic sciences and the second half is your clinical training. Then you take the Medical Board Exam. FOR MORE INFORMATION To connect with a chiropractic physician, visit thecoreinstitute.com or call 866.974.2673.
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