Glossary

  • PINCHED NERVES - Nerves exit between vertebrae and fan out to all parts of the body, thus supplying vital glossarynerve energy everywhere. When the vertebrae become misaligned they may pinch spinal nerves and alter normal nerve impulses. This can bring pain and serious trouble to the back as well as other bodily parts, organs, and glands served by the affected nerves.

  • LOW BACK PAIN - Many low back problems stem from simple, everyday stresses on stomach or back muscles and the ligaments designed to give the spine stability and to hold the vertebrae in proper alignment. Falls, whiplash, sports injuries, and work injuries bring on many low back attacks, too. It's estimated that on any day about 6½ million Americans take treatment of some kind for back pain.

  • SHORT LEG SYNDROME - One leg being functionally shorted than the other often sets the stage for other troubles including arthritis, spinal curvature, back pain, and a host of other painful and disabling ailments.

  • WHIPLASH INJURY - Neck injury is brought about by a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the body that snaps the head and neck forward, backward, or to the side. An automobile rear-end collision is the most frequent whiplash event, but falls can do it, too.

  • FALLS - A primary cause of neck, back, leg, arm, and hip injury and pain.

  • SWAYBACK - An exaggeration of the lower spine's inward curve throws an awkward mechanical stress on spinal ligaments, back muscles, and vertebrae. Sometimes spinal nerves get pinched.

  • SCOLIOSIS - An abnormal curvature of the spine that usually shows up (if it's going to) during adolescence. More common than people realize.

  • INCORRECT LIFTING - The additional stress on the back when lifting the wrong way injures countless backs at work and at home.

  • REPETITIVE STRESS SYNDROME - COMMONLY CALLED "OVERUSE INJURY" Almost any ongoing, repetitive irritation, stress, strain, sprain, physical tension, prolonged tautness, or pressure can produce overuse injury.

  • SCIATICA - Usually displays excruciating pain, numbness, or tingling along the course of the sciatic nerve beginning in the lower spine. May continue all the way down the leg into the foot.

  • SLIPPED DISC - Sometimes a spinal disc herniates or bulges and presses or pinches nearby spinal nerves. Usually exhibits great pain, sometimes so intense it disables its victim. 

Comfort Care Chiropractic
919 W. 12th Avenue
Emporia, KS 66801
Phone: (620) 343-2020
(800) 556-0215


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