Pain Management

NoraCare offers Pain Management Treatments

Have you ever been diagnosed with “Sciatica”, “Herniated disc”, “Spinal Stenosis” or “Arthritis”?

Is your injury interfering with your ability to earn a living or is it holding you back from enjoying your favorite hobbies?

Does your sciatica limit quality time with family and friends?

Low back pain is the most common reason people visit a doctor, second only to the common cold. Most people will experience back pain sometime in their life. What’s worse is that people who get back pain once will most likely get back pain again!!

The problem is that there are many confusing messages out there about the best treatments for back pain. Patients find themselves going from doctor to doctor, one therapy program to another trying to find an answer with little to no results. Worse yet, there are some patients that opt for surgery with devastating results with even worse back pain than before!

So what is this revolutionary treatment? In order to understand it, let us first talk about how some back pain can be caused by the domino effect of a “HERNIATED DISC”!

First, a person can have a herniated disc in the spine because of bad posture or misalignment in the spine as well as weakened muscles that fail to support the spine.

Second, the herniated disc can get worse over time and start to press on or irritate nerves that come out of the spine. These are nerves that control the muscles in your arms and legs. An example of this is the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in the body, coming from the lower spine and going down into the leg and branches into the foot. If the herniated disc is in the low back and irritates the nerve, the result can be something called sciatica, pronounced SIA’DIKA. Not all leg pain is sciatica, but most all sciatica involves leg pain. The pain is described as a “toothache” like pain, sometimes sharp, stabbing or “electric shocks” going down the leg or foot. Sometimes the leg can have cramps or weird sensations of something crawling with “pins and needles” up and down the leg.

Next, as the herniated disc worsens over time, it becomes more and more inflamed and sends chemicals that irritate the nerve further with worsening muscle spasms in the back and leg.

Last but not least, if the pain is not treated aggressively and early enough, the body becomes even more sensitive to pain and your brain starts to focus and tune into pain even more over time. The pain becomes even harder to treat!! For many patients, the pain starts to interfere with work, daily life, and sometimes cause depression.

First: cutting-edge diagnostics. Electromyography also known as “EMG” is a nerve test that is used for specific patients and musculoskeletal ultrasound to evaluate for any joint pains that might also affect the patient.

Second: specialized medical care: Remember that medicine is highly specialized and you need more than a general doctor treating your pain. Evaluation and direction by specialized physicians that have mastery of ALL the NON-SURGICAL techniques against back pain is like having a team of generals coordinating your army of care and treatment. From spine injections such as EPIDURAL INJECTIONS, FACET INJECTIONS or NERVE BLOCKS, a specialized doctor, Noracare has the expertise to guide the patient toward the right path.

Third: chiropractic manipulation, traction and posture correction along with use of laser therapy, electrical stimulation and other modalities can provide comfort and help relieve pain immediately

Fourth: medical acupuncture can be an effective treatment and alternative to medications, procedures and surgery. Medical acupuncture is specifically covered for Medicare patients to treat chronic low back pain. But, acupuncture can help with all types of pain from headaches, joint pain and neck pain.

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