Chiropractic Solutions helps San Jose ankylosing spondylitis patients with their back pain.
Flexibility. It is vital for a body to be flexible. One disease that may prevent flexibility is ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis is not curable, but good care by a knowledgeable practitioner like your San Jose chiropractor may help diminish its symptoms and lasting effects. It’s an inflammatory disease that in time can cause your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything makes it less flexible. Chiropractic Solutions looks to keep its San Jose chiropractic patients as flexible as possible.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients visiting Chiropractic Solutions frequently have clear-cut conditions that explain their back pain experience. Infrequently, more one-of-a-kind conditions like ankylosing spondylitis arrive, too. In a study of 3336 patients with ankylosing spondylitis, most ankylosing spondylitis patients were diagnosed outside of rheumatology practices. The majority were diagnosed by other practitioners while 7% were diagnosed by chiropractors or PTs. The median time for diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis from a diagnosis of back pain to a referral to a rheumatologist was 307 days. (1) Your San Jose chiropractor knows the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will make that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
Chiropractic Solutions, being a San Jose 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 fasten to bone (spine, breastbone to ribs, hip, shoulder joint), ankylosing spondylitis may occur. Ankylosing spondylitis doesn’t begin and does its thing then quit. It may come and go, be worse and better, be off and on, for months or years. Ankylosing spondylitis may cause fatigue, and men are more likely to suffer with ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, Chiropractic Solutions 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 comes to an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW San Jose CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP San Jose ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing San Jose 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 typical clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, mixing medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can draw some relief like pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your San Jose chiropractor successfully and enthusiastically works in partnership with San Jose healthcare colleagues to help San Jose chiropractic patients find the gentle care they need.
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