Chronic Pain and Fatigue can drain your energy and inflict long-term pain. Read more about these conditions below and how we use advanced medical imaging to develop your treatment and verify its effectiveness.
Symptoms
With chronic pain, your pain does more than just hurt. It persists for months, and sometimes years. Back pain, neck pain, and headaches are the most common types, but chronic pain can occur anywhere in the body. Its sufferers often experience chronic fatigue, a disorder that causes extreme tiredness for months or years at a time.
In addition to chronic pain and fatigue, sufferers may experience sensations like burning, tingling, and numbness. Their discomfort can keep them up at night. Even mild exertion can aggravate the pain and fatigue, forcing many sufferers to avoid their passions and stay inactive. They may also experience digestive disorders, headaches, and memory problems. Understandably, these issues can contribute to depression.
Causes
The medical community still does not know the exact cause of these disorders. However, recent studies and clinical trials show that people often develop them within one or two decades after experiencing physical trauma. The most common traumas preceding these disorders were head and neck injuries from car accidents, slips, falls, and work-related injuries.
These head and neck injuries can cause spinal misalignment where the head and neck meet, compressing the brainstem, spinal cord, or nerves.
This compression causes irritation to the nervous system and can interfere with the proper flow of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in and around the brain and spinal cord. If blood and CSF cannot flow correctly, the nervous system can become imbalanced and dysfunctional. This can result in nerve messages not being properly communicated between the brain and body.
When indicated, a special, a weight-bearing MRI of the craniocervical (head and neck) junction can be ordered. This high-tech imaging can often confirm this condition when it is present. This critical information allows our care to focus on the root cause instead of chasing symptoms around the body.
Treatments
Our treatment approach can help restore neurological balance and function as well as improve the flow of blood and CSF. Thrive Head and Spinal Care offers upper cervical chiropractic care with the goal of reducing the upper -neck spinal misalignments. Post correction MRIs have documented that upper cervical adjustments can improve blood and CSF flow into and out of the brain.
Upper cervical chiropractic care is gentle and precise. It involves no twisting, cracking, or popping of the neck. Instead, we apply math, physics, and engineering principles to determine the correction you need to restore your normal position and function. We use pre- and post-correction tests to ensure that your nervous system function has improved and your body has the best opportunity to heal.
Don’t lose another hour of life to neurological pain, fatigue, and other debilitating symptoms. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of upper cervical care in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Dutson sees every patient as a person, not as a condition. He has a vision to do healthcare differently… to put the ‘care’ back in healthcare. He wants to help you enjoy your life to the fullest and THRIVE. Schedule your appointment today.
