“Hey Dad, are you ready?”

Your daughter’s voice echoes down the hall, but you don’t want to move from the chair.

“Just a moment.”

In five minutes, you’ll have struggled to walk the few feet from your chair to the car where your daughter waits for you to take her to the fall festival. She’ll wander around, looking at jewelry and mugs while you search for the next place to sit.

Back pain has become the extra guest on any outing, and it’s exhausting. You wish you could walk with your daughter at the festival, take your wife contra dancing, zip down the hallway at work when the boss calls a surprise meeting.

But pain has taken that away. Pain is the army surrounding your body, keeping you from the things you love.

If you are having pain when standing which goes away when you sit, you could have spinal stenosis.

Spinal Stenosis

Spinal stenosis is a chronic condition which must be contained and controlled. Basically, the hollow where your spinal cord travels narrows to compress the cord. Most often, it happens because of a degenerative process in your body such as arthritis.

While stenosis most often occurs in your neck or lower back, the symptoms will usually show up as numbness or tingling in extremities such as the legs or shoulders and arms. With lower back, or lumbar, stenosis, you’ll have pain when walking, but find relief when you sit down. With neck, or cervical, stenosis, you’ll experience pain in your neck.

Long Axis Traction Can Help

If you want to avoid surgery (and with price tags starting at $90,000, who doesn’t?), chiropractors can help with long axis traction. Long axis traction allows the chiropractor to decompress your spinal cord, helping you to find relief from the pain.

Chiropractors are generals in the war on stenosis. Using long axis traction, they can help your spinal cord find relief and battle the bulges caused by this narrowing.

Unfortunately, it’s best to think of stenosis as an ongoing siege, a chronic condition which must be contained and controlled rather than something which can be cured. But with a chiropractor on your side, you have a better chance of containing the pain and avoiding surgery.

I treat people from all across the region, and I am located in Weaverville, NC. Many of my clients live in Mars Hill, Marshall and Asheville.

Give me a call or text today at  828-777-6115  and let’s break the siege of pain together!

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Everyone has pain.
Some of us have occasional pain, some have mild pain, some have pain that can be relieved simply by sitting down and putting your feet up.
Most often, clients come to me with severe chronic pain – the pain that makes you take notice. The pain that invades your life and changes your habits. The pain that doesn’t go away.
If this pain occurs in your back or neck (and it could be traveling down your leg or arm as well), then you may have an issue with your spinal canal being compressed. This condition can be caused by bulging spinal discs, spinal stenosis, foraminal stenosis, arthritis, spinal injuries – the list goes on.
Basically, something went out of whack in your neck or back. Maybe your spine bends or curves. Perhaps you hurt yourself. Or, a genetic disposition to arthritis or stenosis could be showing up. Whatever the case, when that event occurs, your spinal column (that little space in your backbones which holds your spinal cord as it travels down your back) shrinks.

How Can I Fix This Pain?
One of the most effective ways to treat this sort of pain is with long axis traction. This treatment decompresses the spinal cord, making it easier for any bulges in the discs to be pulled back into balance.
Long axis traction helps you avoid surgery, the traditional treatment for these issues. And the faster you catch these bulges, the better! The longer you allow bulges to occur, the worse they will get – and the longer you’ll need to continue treatment.

What is Long Axis Traction?
Chiropractors use long axis traction to decompress their clients’ spines. This treatment stretches the spine, allowing the bulging parts of any spinal discs to return to their normal position. When this occurs, the pressure on the nerves is relieved.
To treat you, a specially designed table uses a cable and pulley system to pull your body and create the traction. This pull, the traction, causes negative pressure on the discs, allowing the fluid to move back into place.
Because of the gentle nature of this treatment and the way that it allows the body to find its balance again, this treatment provides real long-term healing.

Who Can Help Me?
Consulting a chiropractor about long axis traction is the first step. Once a professional checks you out, you work with them to form a healing plan to find a way out of pain. Sometimes you don’t even need this sort of drastic approach, and as I said earlier, the sooner we start, the more likely we will be able to avoid surgery.
I treat people from all across the region, and I am located in Weaverville, NC. Many of my clients live in Mars Hill, Marshall, Alexander, Woodfin, and Asheville.
Give me a call or text today at 828-777-6115 and let’s get you out of pain!

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