Neck Pain Relief in Rome, GA

How Chiropractic Care Treats the Cause of Neck Pain

Many patients who walk into our Rome practice have already attempted the usual remedies. Hot or cold packs, over-the-counter medicine, a new pillow. They may have helped you feel a little less pain, but your neck still hurts because nothing's improved deep down.

Neck pain relief begins by locating the true underlying problem, rather than just treating the symptoms.

Your cervical spine is made up of seven little bones stacked on top of one another. When even one of those bones moves out of proper alignment, it places pressure on the nerves and muscles around it. This is exactly what produces that feeling of tightness, the sharp pain you feel when you turn your head, and that low ache that sits at the base of your skull all day. Many patients think they slept wrong, but the actual problem is a misalignment that's been brewing for months.

This is what we're examining during your neck evaluation:

• Vertebral misalignments that limit proper motion
• Muscle tension that pulls your spine further out of alignment
• Nerve irritation caused by joint dysfunction
• Sustained poor postures (think long hours hunched over a laptop or phone) that keep making it worse

Once we've found the source of your discomfort, we apply a specific adjustment to get the neck bones back in their proper position. Spinal manipulation is one of the most thoroughly investigated and beneficial treatments for neck pain. This isn't a process of trial and error. We'll take some pictures, run some range of motion tests, and find exactly which joint in the spine has lost its way before we do an adjustment on you.

A lot of people living near North Broad Street and in the downtown Rome area work in a seated position eight hours a day. Just that head-forward position can add 60 pounds of weight-bearing stress to the neck. So, the adjustment fixes the immediate problem, but we also want to know why it happened.

This is why our care is more than simply quick neck pain relief. We aren't interested in getting you to feel okay for a couple of weeks; we want to resolve the problem permanently. The catch is that you need to deal with the cause of the problem or else you're just sticking a Band-Aid over a structural flaw.

What to Expect During Your First Visit

There's nothing that you need to do prior to arriving to the office aside from showing up.

We have treated many people in Rome who had no idea what to expect during the visit, so we'll walk you through exactly what your visit entails when you come in to get neck pain relief.

Completion of paperwork and a consultation.

You'll be asked to fill out a brief health history form and then we'll sit down and interview you. It will be more than just a quick five-minute conversation. We want to know when the pain started, what triggers it, and how it is affecting your sleep and activities of daily living. We also want to know if you have suffered a car wreck or had a sport-related injury that could have started this problem.

A physical examination.

This can include range-of-motion testing, palpation of the neck to determine where tension and subluxation exists, and neurological testing. Most folks are surprised at what we are able to uncover using just our hands and eyes during a routine visit.

X-rays or other tests if necessary.

We may take X-rays at our office. Not every single case needs X-rays, but if the exam points to something that doesn't seem right, it is good to know what is going on in that area before adjusting.

First chiropractic adjustment.

If we feel like we have enough information, many of our patients receive chiropractic treatment the first time in the office. The adjustments are performed gently and precisely, and we will tell you what we are going to do before we do it.

Follow-up visit treatment plan.

Before you leave the office, we'll show you what your initial treatment plan is going to look like. How often you need to come back, what you can do on your own to help, whether we'd suggest adding something like cold laser therapy or spinal traction therapy later.

Usually, patients tell us they wish they would have come in a lot earlier.

The neck discomfort you've been dealing with in North Broad Street area, Rome, for weeks might already be in your history book with us. We treat that same situation regularly now! Rest assured, we won't recommend you a series of long-term care you won't have time for. Certain neck pain issues resolve in a few visits, others take several weeks. Your first visit takes around 45 minutes, after which you will leave with a complete knowledge of what is going on and what you can expect!