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In Part 2, Dr David Lim of Wellness for Life Chiropractic explains how modern chiropractic helps with back pain and other ailments.

HT: How does it help with back pain?

DL: Up to 70% of working adults in Singapore suffer from some form of back, shoulder and neck pain at least once during their lives. Long periods of sitting, standing, improper lifting and many everyday activities can place a significant amount of stress on your spine; especially in your lower back (lumbar vertebrae). The lumber spines are the biggest and thickest of all your vertebrae, because, being at the bottom of your spine, they have the most weight to hold up. That’s a big reason lower back pain is very common. Chiropractors have helped millions of people with lower back problems, often saving them from pain, disability, drugs and surgery. 3 The chiropractor’s purpose is to gently and painlessly rebalance and realign your spine to relieve pressure on your nerves, discs and muscles, thus allowing your entire body, including your back, to function at its optimum.

HT: Can it be used to treat other problems besides back pain?

DL: For more than a hundred years, people with all kinds of health conditions have visited doctors of chiropractic. Many have initially come for back pain, but then discovered other ways of chiropractic care can help them and their family. The goal of chiropractic is to free your body from subluxations thus releasing pressure on your nerves so that your entire body may function at its optimum. By correcting subluxation, it has brought relief to millions of people suffering from a wide variety of health conditions such as migraine headaches, digestion problems, asthma and allergies, frequent colds/infection, low energy, poor posture and many more!4

HT: Can it help prevent health problems?

DL: There is an old Chinese saying: “There wouldn’t be any major health problems if we paid attention to minor ones.” Remember your nerves control and coordinate all body functions. Depending on which nerve is being affected, any nerve interference caused by a subluxation has the ability to create a lowered state of health in the affected area of the body. So essentially, if your spine is maintained in its optimal alignment, regular chiropractic care has the potential to prevent countless health problems before they appear. Maintaining a healthy spine and nervous system after it has been restored to its optimum level can help keep you truly healthy and avoid those small problems from becoming big (expensive) ones.

Reference:

3 Shekelle PG, Adams A, et al. The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Indications and Ratings by a Multidisciplinary Expert Panel. RAND corporation, Santa Monica, California; 1991.

4 Graham, RL and Pistolese RA. Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research 1997: 1 (4): 1-8

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