Drug Free Relief

Medication is not a solution for pain. Although it may provide temporary relief, it is important to understand that pain is your body telling you something is wrong. If you simply muffle its cry for help, your injuries are likely to worsen over time. Prolonged use of medication also requires stronger doses, along with an increased risk of addiction. Medication such as aspirin, Tylenol, Motrin, cortisone injections, and other heavier medication may also result in such side effects as liver, kidney, or gastrointestinal damage, fatigue and depression.

Using only medication to take care of your pain is like cutting a weed in your garden while leaving the root in the ground. Compare that long, burrowing root to the structural cause of your bank pain. If you correct the structural problems, the pain will not reappear and you have uprooted your problem for good. However, if you simply deal with your pain on a surface level through medication, the pain will persist, coming back time and time again like that scraggly dandelion in your flowerbed. Chiropractic Care targets the problem, not just the symptoms.