Chiropractic Conditions Treated

Chiropractic Conditions Treated at Stine Chiropractic Clinic in Fredericksburg, VA

Neck Pain

Neck pain can create considerable disruption in our daily lives and can lead to trouble working, enjoying activities, or even daily life activities. Seeing a chiropractic orthopedist can help. Using a physical exam and additional imaging, the pain source can be reliably located. Treatment is based off of diagnosis, which is where the main focus of treating neck pain begins. Available treatment from a chiropractic orthopedist can include physical therapy modalities (such as e-stim and ultrasound), rehabilitation, education, soft tissue mobilization techniques, and spinal manipulation if appropriate. All forms of treatment can be done in-office, making chiropractic orthopedics a convenient and effective form of treatment for neck pain.

Causes of neck pain treated by Stine Chiropractic Clinic

The joint, specifically called the facet joint creating a condition called facet syndrome.
Disc injury: protruding disc, extruded disc, and sequestered discs.
Whiplash injury.
Stenosis: foraminal, or spinal.
Thoracic outlet syndrome.
Degenerative disc disease.
All causes of pinched nerve: protruding discs, foraminal stenosis, spinal stenosis, thoracic outlet syndrome.

How chiropractic orthopedics can help

Therapies aimed to deliver pain relief by using your body’s own painkillers. This reduces the amount of pain medications needed for pain and reduces risk of side effects.
Diagnosis and education of specific condition and things you can do at home to reduce the risk of re-injury.
Restoration of normal joint motion that delivers nutrition to the joints and expedites your body’s ability to heal

Take the next step

If you are experiencing neck pain, it’s always important to take the next step. Stine Chiropractic Clinic has two board-certified chiropractic orthopedists that have been serving the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania areas for over 35 years. Get in today and let us get you back to a pain-free lifestyle.

Back Pain

80 percent of Americans will have back pain at least once in their lifetime. This usually results in time missed from work. Structural problems may also result in back pain such as bulging disc, ruptured disc, degenerative disc disease, joint injury known as facet syndrome, and many more. It is very difficult to treat a back problem without a diagnosis because not all back problems respond to the same treatment.

Causes of lower back pain

Joint injury also known as facet syndrome
Disc injury: protruded, extruded, and sequestered discs.
Sciatica
Structural causes of low back pain: osteoarthritis, stenosis, spodylolisthesis, transitional segments like sacralization or lumbarization, facet tropism.
Causes of low back pain and leg pain: sciatica, protruding disc, synovial cyst, stenosis or neurogenic claudication, facet syndrome.

How can chiropractic orthopedics help

Here at Stine Chiropractic the doctors work with you to find your diagnosis and the best up-to-date treatment to prevent progression through palliative modalities and active rehabilitation services. Chiropractic orthopedics is a conservative management approach to orthopedics without the use of surgery or drugs. Stine Chiropractic Clinic is the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania areas’ only board-certified chiropractic orthopedic clinic, dealing with some of the most complex orthopedic conditions safely and effectively for over 35 years.

Take the next step

Give us a call at Stine Chiropractic Clinic: 540 898 4100 and get started on your journey to better orthopedic health. Relief is just around the corner. With extended hours and additional clinical staff to make appointments easier and available sooner to get you back to a pain-free lifestyle.

Orthopedics & Sports Injuries

Orthopedic conditions are injuries that can be caused by everyday life or sports activities. These conditions stem from injuries of various tissues in the body including tendons, ligaments, muscles, nerves, and bone.

Conditions originating from these tissues can be helped along by physical therapy modalities found at Stine Chiropractic Clinic, as well as education and specific mechanisms of the condition, allowing you to prevent further injury.

Myalgia/fibromyalgia

If you have muscle pain, you may take medication for the symptom but it never dissipates completely. This may further cause you to feel your energy is drained, depression, and in some cases, an inability to work or play. Left to continue over time, myalgia may become a chronic condition and more difficult to find the cause and provide a remedy.

Your condition may be due to an infection; Lyme disease, influenza, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, etc. It could be drug-related; statins, fibrates, ACE inhibitors, etc. Blood tests may be necessary in these instances. Diet analysis may also be beneficial.

Sciatica

Finding out what is causing your sciatica can be hard if you don’t know where to start. Sciatica is a painful condition that can start in your back and end up going down the leg. This condition can make everyday life hard to handle. Seeing a board-certified chiropractic orthopedist can help identify the cause of your sciatica.

What is Sciatica?

Sciatica is a painful condition of the leg that may or may not be caused by back issues. Sciatica has many contributing factors and causes. This condition may be caused byspinal stenosis, facet referral, piriformis syndrome, or even a protruding or extruded disc. Sciatica is a term that is used loosely for pain going down the leg, however it doesn’t answer the question of what is truly causing your my leg pain. True sciatica should be felt in the entire lower leg as the sciatic nerve is responsible for all of the sensation in the lower leg. Feeling pains that radiate into the thigh and rarely going beyond the knee should be evaluated for other causes. Seeing a chiropractic orthopedist should be considered as a first stop to identify the true cause of the leg pain.

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Herniated Disc

Healthcare professionals do not always agree on which term to use to describe the disc involvement that may cause significant back pain or radiating leg or arm symptoms. You may have heard the terms herniated disc, pinched nerve, sciatica, bulging disc, slipped disc, or ruptured disc to describe your symptoms.

The most common disc injury is the lumbar region of the spine because this is the area that carries most of the load bearing compression. Your body also leaves this area exposed to disc protrusion because the posterior ligamentous tissues taper off as it gets into the lumbar spine. With a protrusion prognosis is the best because the inner disc material has not exited outside of the fibrous outer rings. The extrusion prognosis is slightly different due to the disc material making it out farther than the protrusion leaving an inflammatory response at the nerve root causing you distal leg symptoms. The doctors at Stine Chiropractic Clinic are equipped with the experience and tools to get you the symptom relief you desire, typically within 2 weeks, depending on the type of discal problem (protrusion-bulge or extrusion-rupture). It’s important to get in as soon as symptoms start to get the best prognosis and response period.

Headaches & Migraines

Headaches can vary from mild aching to severe debilitating pain that can be on both sides or one side of the head. They tend to last anywhere from 30 minutes to days. There are neck conditions, muscle strains or spasms that will contribute or even cause your headaches. Some of the long list of headaches are cluster headaches, sinus headaches, temporal arteritis, cervicogenic headaches, and tension headaches. There are also more serious conditions that can present with headache so it’s always important to have them evaluated.

Migraines and cluster headaches may have accompanied symptoms called a prodrome or aura.

Prodrome: a symptom indicative of an approaching disease (fatigue, malaise, lethargy, stiff neck, mood changes, anorexia, food cravings, chilled feeling, diarrhea or constipation, fluid retention, increased frequency of urination) occur 24-48 hrs prior to HA onset. A prodrome may be associated with a number of different headaches and/or systemic diseases.
Aura: focal neurological (sensory, motor, language) symptoms typically evolving over a period of 5 to 60 minutes (usually < 20 min). They usually precede a headache, but onset of the aura may occur simultaneously with the onset of the pain, and some patients experience aura without headache Most auras are associated with the visual system (flashes of color, wavy lines, shimmering spots, scintillations, visual distortions, hallucinations, or visual loss) or auditory disturbances (unusual sounds or tinnitus, sometimes hearing loss); however the patient may experience paresthesias, hemiparesis (paralyzed on one side of the body), aphasia (inability to make spoken phrases), hypersensitivity, hypoesthesia (decrease in the ability to touch), ataxia (unable to walk), change in level of consciousness, diplopia (double vision), vertigo, etc.

A pathognomonic sign of migraine is a certain type of aura called a fortification spectra. In fortification spectra, first the vision blurs, and then there appears a slowly expanding paracentral scotoma (blind spot), surrounded by luminous scintillating geometric forms, which enlarges and moves laterally until it disappears outside the peripheral vision. This takes between 10-30 minutes.

Other less serious headaches like cervicogenic and tension headaches can be brought on by stress and prolonged or sustained postures. These occur more often in females. Tension type is usually on both sides and the pain can be described as a squeezing sensation in a headband-like distribution. Cervicogenic headaches are caused by the bones in the cervical spine and symptoms are increased with certain motions.

Treatment used may be physical therapy modalities, getting rid of any triggers, or taking steps to reduce stress. If you have never tried chiropractic care, you owe it to yourself to see a chiropractor to help manage your pain.