Every year, 3.3 million Americans are injured on the job. These work injuries are not only debilitating, they prevent workers from actively engaging in their personal and professional lives. While some work injuries are a result of a traumatic accident, others can be caused by repetitive injury or overexertion.
Seeing a chiropractor as soon as possible after a work injury can improve your chances for recovery. If you wait or delay treatment you could risk further injury and pain. Fortunately, conservative treatments like physical therapy and chiropractic can provide effective, lasting relief after work injury. At Radiance Spine Injury & Wellness Center, we've helped hundreds of patients get back to work as quickly and as safely as possible.
Employees in industrial work place significant strain on their spines every day, so it's no surprise that spinal injuries of the neck and back are some of the most common occupational injuries we see. But construction workers aren't the only ones vulnerable of neck and back injuries. Office employees and service workers can also develop back and neck pain as a result of improper ergonomics, poor posture, or overexertion. Countless studies have demonstrated the efficacy of chiropractic care, trigger point therapy, and physical therapy for relieving back and neck pain.
A study of injured workers treated for back pain.
Seeing a chiropractor can help you avoid back surgery, according to a new study in the journal Spine. Researchers studied nearly 2,000 injured workers with back pain, and found that the health-care provider significantly affected a patient's likelihood of receiving surgery.
People who first visited a medical doctor for their back pain were more likely to have an operation than people who first visited a chiropractor. Nearly 43% of medical patients had surgery compared to just 1.5% of chiropractic patients. That means medical patients were 28 times more likely have surgery.
Instead of depending on pain meds and expensive procedures, the chiropractic patients improved through natural treatments that addressed the root of their pain.
To discover how chiropractic can provide effective, natural relief of back pain, call our office today.
Reference:
Keeney BJ, et al. Early predictors of lumbar spine surgery after occupational back injury: results from a prospective study of works in Washington state. Spine 2012; doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182814ed5.
