Lumbar & Pelvis Misalignment
Lower Back Pain
Problems
Causes
Solutions
If Ignored
Problems
Lumbar Misalignment:
- Often known as pinched nerve
- This can vary in intensity from local pain to sharp strong shooting pain
- Early symptoms include:
- Pain during or after sitting on the couch or car
- Pain getting out of the chair
- Pain upon waking and getting dressed
- Pain on flexion (bending forwards)
- Bad cases may also:
- Have pain shooting or referring down the thigh and leg (Sciatica)
- Debilitating back pain that causes you to stand crocked or bent over
- Pain on coughing or sneezing
- Agonizing pain on movement
Pelvis Misalignment:
- Patients often comment that their ‘hip feels out’
- Usually goes un-noticed for a long time
- Symptoms include:
- Generalised and vague lower back ache
- Ache or pain noticed walking – the more you walk the worse it gets
- Ache or pain noticed standing for long periods
- Ache lying in bed
- Pain referring into the hip or buttock
- Bad cases may also:
- Ref down the thigh to the knee
- Pain referring into the groin or testis
- Not be able to weight bear or walk at all
- Not get comfortable at night causing no sleep
Causes
Lumbar Misalignment:
- Usually caused by activities such as:
- Lifting heavy items – shifting furniture
- Repetitive lifting – work related
- Twisting and lifting – shifting boxes
- Fall or trauma
- The lumbar misalignment causes inflammation and pressure in the disc, this in turn causes pressure on the neighbouring spinal nerve – causing pain locally or in bad cases pain referred – sciatica.
Pelvis Misalignment:
- Usually caused by:
- Twisting injuries – lifting a heavy suit case onto the bed
- Repetitive twisting – whipper sniping
- Standing on uneven surface – painting on a ladder with feet on different levels
- The pelvis misalignment causes inflammation to the Sacro-iliac joint, (like spraining your ankle), which then causes irritation to the local nerves in the area, which can cause local ache or travelling pain.
Solutions
Lumbar Misalignment:
- You can usually get some temporary relief by walking and gentle activity if you’re able to tolerate the pain or unable to seek professional assistant.
- Professional intervention will help reduce the time it takes for your body to heal itself.
- Systematic ‘hands on’ examination of the spine, with the help of x-rays and specialised instruments, will lead our specially trained chiropractors to precisely locate the exact vertebra that is misaligned and causing pressure on the nerve.
- Once the cause is identified, a specific correction called an ‘adjustment’ is used to re-place the vertebra into the correct position.
Pelvis Misalignment:
- You can usually get some temporary relief from sitting and resting if you’re able to tolerate the pain or unable to seek professional assistant.
- Professional intervention will help reduce the time it takes for your body to heal itself.
- Careful examination of the pelvis alignment using postural analysis, x-rays line drawings and static pain findings will lead to a diagnosis and conclusion of how the pelvis needs to be corrected.
- The direction of correction (pelvis adjustment) needs to be very specific and in the opposite direction to which it is misaligned, re-placing the joint back to it’s normal position and function.
If Ignored
If left untreated both conditions:
- Will become more painful, gradually getting worse
- May start referring down the leg
- May start to cause pins & needles or numbness
- May start effecting your hobbies and daily activities
- Will cause more uneven stress on the lumbar discs causing wear and tear (osteoarthritis) eventually causing a disc ‘blow out’ or disc protrusion, prolapsed or bludge
- The longer the condition is left untreated, the harder it is to fix. This often results in more visits and a higher final treatment cost
- Eventually leading to permanent damage, which may then result in spinal surgery
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