What is Pain Relief?

Every day people are suffering in pain and seeking an answer how to get relief.  There are many avenues to get relief of the aches and pains from medicine and surgery to more natural ways of chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, naturopathy to name a few.

In the United States, back and neck pain counts for the majority of disability and missed days at work.  Pain can be devastating.  It not only debilitates you, it exhausts you, physically and mentally, until you don’t even want to get out of bed in the morning.

Pain is a sign or signal that something is wrong.  Yet, most people ignore the pain or just reach for the nearest pill to mask the symptoms.  Medical doctors just treat the symptoms by prescribing medications that cover up symptoms and can give you a false sense of security that your problem is fixed.  These medications also have a list of side effects that have detrimental effects on your health and are highly addictive.

When the medications don't work, the next steprecommended by medical doctors is even more scary:  Surgery!  Surgery should be a last resort for any condition.  When it comes to spinal surgery, the success rates are anywhere from 25 to 50%.  Read Dr. Mercola's article:  How to Avoid the Number One Cause of Disability—Safe, Effective Treatments for Back Pain. 

A successful surgery is one that provides at most 1 to 5 years of relief.  These surgeries have high risks of possible paralysis and even death.  Even if the surgery provides temporary relief, the joints  and discs above and below the area of surgery have to take on the additional stresses and eventually start to deteriorate and fail themselves leading to even more pain, more medications and likely more surgery.  This is a vicious cycle.

So what are the more safe and natural effective natural treatments for pain?  Dr. Mercola mentions in his article above many safe means for pain relief from chiropractic, yoga, exercise, massage, acupuncture, and laser therapy.

More studies are showing that chiropractic has not only the highest outcomes in helping patients get pain relief but also cuts the costs of healthcare.  As a chiropractor in Freehold, NJ, I have been helping patients for the past 16 years get out of pain using gentle conservative chiropractic treatment.  We've seen patients who have been told nothing but surgery could help, yet after receiving care with our treatment are now able to enjoy their normal daily activities.  We take a different approach to your care by finding the actual cause of the pain and addressing those imbalances with chiropractic adjustments, therapeutic stretching and exercise therapy.
If you or somebody you know would like to wake up without pain and look forward to enjoying your normal activities check out what many of our patients have to say by clicking:  Reviews of Chiropractor in Freehold.  Or check out our youtube channel for further testimonials and health information by Dr. Russell Brokstein by clicking here:  Freehold Chiropractic