Minster Chiropractic Center helps Minster ankylosing spondylitis patients with their back pain.
Flexibility. It is important for a body to be flexible. One disease that may prevent flexibility is ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis is not curable, but decent care by a well-informed practitioner like your Minster chiropractor may help lessen its symptoms and lasting effects. It’s an inflammatory disease that in time can trigger your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything give rise to less flexibility. Minster Chiropractic Center looks to maintain flexibility in its Minster chiropractic patients.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients presenting to Minster Chiropractic Center often have straightforward conditions that make clear their back pain experience. Occasionally, more unique conditions like ankylosing spondylitis appear, too. In a research investigation of 3336 patients with ankylosing spondylitis, most ankylosing spondylitis patients were diagnosed outside of rheumatology practices. Most were diagnosed by other practitioners while 7% were diagnosed by chiropractors or PTs. The median timeframe for diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis from a back pain diagnosis to a referral to a rheumatologist was 307 days. (1) Your Minster chiropractor understands the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will set up that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
Minster Chiropractic Center, being a Minster back pain specialist clinic, will see ankylosing spondylitis patients as it is a spinal condition. Ankylosing spondylitis most frequently involves the spine, particularly the low back and occasionally the sacroiliac joint. Wherever tendons and ligaments attach to bone (spine, breastbone to ribs, hip, shoulder joint), ankylosing spondylitis may arise. Ankylosing spondylitis does not begin and does its thing then stop. It may come and go, be worse and better, be off and on, for months or years. Ankylosing spondylitis may make its sufferer tired, and men are more prone to get ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, Minster Chiropractic Center may be able to help influence its fusing ways to help keep as much flexibility in its fused areas and an upright posture as possible instead of the hyperkyphosis curving that often results in an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW Minster CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP Minster ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing Minster ankylosing spondylitis may be complex in some cases as symptoms may range from neck pain and stiffness to low back pain and hip pain. In some cases, imaging (MRI, xray) and lab tests are done as well as the classic clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, combining medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can bring about some relief in terms of pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your Minster chiropractor effectively and eagerly collaborates with Minster healthcare colleagues to help Minster chiropractic patients find the gentle care they require.
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