I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic. Today, I want to talk with you about lower back pain in chiropractic. Specifically, how is chiropractic so effective at getting rid of low back pain?

Well let’s talk about the lower back for a second. This is the left hip here and the right hip. You can see bones in the low back called vertebrae. And there’s a disk separating each one. They act like shock absorbers and then we can see nerves coming out of the spine on either side at each level. So, when the spine gets crooked, it puts pressure on the nerves and the muscles will react by going into spasm to splint the area. So it creates a lot of pain in the low back.

A qualified chiropractor can relieve that pain by relieving stress on these nerves. So, with a gentle specific correction called an adjustment, we realign the spine, take pressure off the nerves, the muscles start to relax, and the low back pain goes away. So my advice to you is if you have any low back pain, see a qualified chiropractor today to get your spine checked.