Pain management clinics are often where a primary care physician will send you if you complain of musculoskeletal pain. Whilst some clinics provide therapy, they also supply unnatural pain relief techniques and may, in fact, be limited on what they can do for you if you’re looking for a non-medicated solution. At Premier Chiropractic Center, serving Bessemer, AL, and the general vicinity, we want you to understand how chiropractic care rates against standard pain management.
Side Effects
The ideal pain management program reduces or alleviates your pain without causing other unpleasant side effects to appear. With a traditional pain management program, you may be prescribed medications that are potentially addictive. Even if you take them as prescribed, you may become physically dependent upon them. As a result, when you don’t have the drug, you might experience any of the following:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach cramps
- Muscle pain
- Diarrhea
- Chills
- Anxiety
- Insomnia
And these are only some of the potential withdrawal symptoms.
Besides the potential for addiction, pain medications can cause side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, decreased heart rate, hypotension, fainting, diarrhea, and dizziness, to name a few.
With chiropractic care, most treatments aren’t known to cause any ill side effects. Sometimes, you may feel a bit sore after your treatment, but that’s usually the extent of it. A medicated approach to pain relief may require you to refrain from driving immediately after, but with chiropractic care, you can hop right into the driver’s seat immediately following your appointment.
Natural Vs. Unnatural
Yes, some of the treatments you receive from a traditional pain management clinic are natural and non-medicated, such as a physical therapy program. However, not all treatments are natural. Therefore, you must be specific if you want an unmedicated approach to pain relief. Keep in mind that not all pain management clinics offer the same services, which means you could be limited to what the clinic has to offer.
With chiropractic care, on the other hand, all treatments are natural. You don’t have to worry about coming to us and receiving anything unnatural. In fact, you don’t even have to let us know you want a holistic treatment. We’ll automatically assume that’s what you want because you chose us.
Treatment Vs. Coverup
Pain management clinics do offer some treatments that are geared toward actually helping you heal and recover. Some do help strengthen and increase the function and flexion in that body part. However, if you receive only pain medication, it’s not a treatment. It won’t help you heal or recover. It’s merely a coverup.
When you visit a chiropractor, we provide you with a treatment that helps you heal and will increase function and flexion. Not to mention, you also receive pain relief. It’s a win-win if you ask us!
Options for Care
A pain management clinic offers you a few options to help with pain and recovery. However, they’re limited and tend to focus more on conventional pain relief methods.
Conversely, chiropractic care is basically an umbrella term that includes a variety of modalities to assist in reducing or eliminating your pain, including exercise therapy, chiropractic adjustments, and more. We should mention that many of our treatments can be used along with traditional medicine and other chiropractic treatments without worrying about interactions, unlike many traditional pain relief approaches.
Healing Time
Both can enhance your healing time, particularly with physical therapy or exercise therapy.
There is one downside to chiropractic care. Although you may have immediate pain relief from pain medications, chiropractic care may take a bit longer to see the full effects, though some people have some decrease in pain immediately.
Premier Chiropractic Center, serving Bessemer, AL, and the nearby region, wants you to know that chiropractic care can have a number of benefits for your pain compared to a traditional pain management clinic.
Give us a call at 205-519-4024 today to discover for yourself. You could also use our online form.
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