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Mid Back Pain & Chiropractic

Middle Back Pain

Overview

Middle back pain often results from sports injuries or daily activities. The middle back, or thoracic spine, consists of twelve vertebrae supported by muscles, ligaments, tendons, and interconnecting joints. While the middle back is less flexible, its rigid structure protects vital organs and the spinal cord.

Despite its protection, conditions affecting the middle back can impact overall health. Since the thoracic spine has fewer sensation receptors than the neck or lower back, issues often go unnoticed until pressure or touch is applied.

For example, irritation of the thoracic vertebrae can affect organs like the esophageal sphincter, potentially causing heartburn. When nerve signals are disrupted in the middle back, it can reduce function in the organs they serve, leading to symptoms in those systems.

Many of these issues are overlooked and can become chronic, even though the cause may be simple to address.

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Causes of Mid Back Pain
  • Muscle strain, overuse, or injury to the muscles, discs, and ligaments that support your spine.
  • Improper posture
  • Herniated or bulging discs
  • Fracture of the vertebrae
  • Osteoarthritis caused by the disruption of cartilage that protects the small facet joints in the spine
  • Inflammation of connective tissue of muscles
  • Sharp pain
  • Muscle rigidity
  • Weakness in arms or legs
  • Tingling sensation, or numbness in arms, legs, belly, or chest
  • Loss of bladder control

The most common causes of mid back pain are strained postures. Here are the precautions that you can take to prevent the problem:

  • Take frequent breaks
  • Adjust your posture – whenever you feel your middle back and shoulders are bending forward, change your position. Gently stretch in the reverse direction, move your shoulders, and clasp your shoulder blades together.
  • Make some adjustments – when you are sitting in front of your computer, set your monitor to eye level. Be sure that your knees are lower than your hips, and your feet rested on the floor. It is better to use a chair with armrests.
  • Avoid sleeping on your stomach. This sleeping position tends to twist the neck that caused pressure on the vertebrae.

Chiropractic & Mid Back Pain

Chiropractic treatment is a natural healing approach that does not involve drugs. Chiropractic care goes above masking your pain with painkillers or steroid injections. By addressing the injury or pain head on you will start feeling less pain in just a few visits.

Not only will you start feeling better, you are allowing your body to heal the injury. Chiropractic treatment focuses on improving the performance of skeletal bones and joints. If skeletal joints are misaligned, swelling of your muscles and nerves will take place, and that will bring about the pain, weakness, or numbness in any parts of your body. 

A mild chiropractic adjustment is administered to the part of the spine that is misaligned and causing the pain. It helps restore optimum health in a natural way, as a recent study suggests. Our chiropractic treatments will focus on your body as a whole, this way not only are we improving or eliminating the pain you are feeling in your mid back, we extend our focus to other parts of the body that could be the underlying cause of your pain. 

Chiropractors do a mechanical approach. It is not just curing the pain superficially but they look deeply to find the root cause of the pain and get rid of it permanently.

At Beyond Wellness Chiropractic Center we love of scaredy-cats. Our caring and professional staff will do everything possible to make your treatment at our facility as comfortable as possible. We do everything that we can to minimize your wait time, answer all your questions, and help to get you back on to the road to Wellness.

Chiropractors restore joint and nerve function by correcting spinal misalignments. They can clearly recognize the underlying causes by doing gentle spinal adjustments without the use of drugs and medications.

The doctor will perform a physical exam that provides enough insight into the exact nature of the problem. Your chiropractor will then thoroughly explain the results. The chiropractor will also develop a plan to rectify underlying issues. He or she will implement the treatment by doing gentle adjustments to malfunctioning areas.

If you are suffering from mid back pain, call Beyond Wellness Chiropractic Center in Charlotte, NC. We will surely help you reach your optimal health.

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