At Home Chiropractic can provide care for low back pain injuries in the comfort of your own home. Serving the Barrhaven area.

1. BACK
PAIN 101
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2. Back Pain is VERY
common.
It will affect approximately 80% of
Canadians at one point in their lives.

3. What is pain exactly?

5. Pain is a function
of your nervous
system. It works
just like your other
senses do.

6. 1. Receptors detect
damage to your
body’s tissues.

7. 2. A signal is sent from the
receptors up the nerves and into
the spinal cord.
Tissue DamageSpinal Cord
Pain Signals Travelling Through Nerves

8. 3. The signals reach your brain and are
interpreted as pain.

9. It can be difficult to
determine what tissue is
causing these pain signals.
A thorough history and
examination needs to be
performed.

10. In most cases
there are 4 tissues
that generate
back pain.

11. 1. The Disc

12. 2. Facet & SI Joints

14. 3. The Nerve Roots

15. 4. The Muscles

16. The SOLUTION

17. Treat The Disc
Chiropractic
&
Easy Core Exercises

18. Clinical studies have shown a 90% success
rate for a chiropractic approach to disc
herniations.
A NONSURGICAL APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY SECONDARY TO
HERNIATED DISK: A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL COHORT STUDY WITH FOLLOW-UP. Murphy DR, Hurwitz EL, McGovern EE. J
Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2009 Nov-Dec;32(9):723-33.

19. Treat the Joint

20. Chiropractic has been shown to be more
effective for pain & disability than
physiotherapy.
Spinal manipulation compared with back school and with individually delivered physiotherapy for the treatment of chronic low
back pain: a randomized trial with one-year follow-up.
Cecchi F. et al Clin Rehabil January 2010 vol. 24 no.1 26-36

21. Treat the Nerve
Mobilisation exercises help free
nerves from adhesions and
promote proper movement.

22. Treat the Muscle
Stretching, Strengthening and Myofascial
Release

23. We Can Do All
This In Your Own
Home
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24. Call us today to beat back pain.
(613) 402 – 0452
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