Electronic Muscle Stimulation for Back Pain
If your chiropractor mentions the words electronic muscle stimulation for treating your Back Pain Vestal NY, you shouldn’t panic. In this case, the treatment sounds much worse than the reality.
When the average person goes to the chiropractor they assume that their back pain means their spine has gotten knocked out of place and that a simple alignment will put everything back in order and reduce the pain. While this will be true for some people, it’s not always the case. Sometimes the issue has very little to with the spine, but has been triggered by the muscles near the spine getting damaged, most often from an abundance of physical exertion. As result the muscles have stiffened up and moving them becomes difficult and painful. The electronic muscle stimulation helps stimulate the muscles, increasing the speed of healing.
Even though the electronic muscle stimulation helps heal the muscle damage quicker than they would have healed on their own, you shouldn’t assume your back pain will immediately disappear. It won’t. There’s still going to be some discomfort and you’ll still have to take it easy. Even after the back pain abates, you’ll want to take things slow so your newly healed muscles can gradually return to their full strength. Trying to do something too quickly can redamage the tissue.
Patients who have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia will often be good candidates for electronic muscle stimulation. Chiropractors who have used electronic muscle stimulation to help treat back pain caused by muscle damage have noticed the following:
* Reduced swelling
* Increased muscle function
* Improved healing time
When your chiropractor decides that electronic muscle stimulation could help treat the cause of your back pain, they will send a low frequency, electrical pulse through the muscles. The pulse is designed to mimic the electrical pulses the nervous system naturally emits. This causes the muscles to contract, become warm, and experience an increase in circulation, all things which encourage the tissue to heal. The treatment won’t be painful. It’s not like touching an electric fence. The most you’ll notice will be a very slight tingling sensation.
Electronic muscle stimulation has been effectively used to help treat
* Chronic headaches
* nervous system disorders
* carpal tunnel
* sports injuries
* atrophied muscles
* sciatica
* muscle regeneration
* muscle tension
* ulcerated muscle tissue
* tennis elbow
Many doctors have found that the increased healing time is just one of the reasons they like to use electronic muscle stimulation to treat back pain. The even bigger benefit is that the EMS allows them to relieve the pain while reducing the amount of pharmaceutical pain killers they have to prescribe. The decrease in pharmaceutical pain killers reduces the risk of patients developing a dangerous addiction or experiencing severe side effects.
Owego Chiropratic P.C takes pride in using a holistic approach when treating patient’s back pain Vestel NY. Information about their office and the treatments the provide can be found at http://www.owegochiropractic.com