There are plenty of instances where passing pain can be managed with medication. You might take acetaminophen for a headache or ibuprofen to help with a sprained ankle. But if you’re dealing with pain that won’t go away, you don’t want to rely on medication.
Fortunately, as a pain management specialist, Dr. Trace Alexander offers an alternative way to find relief. With chiropractic care, he helps you discover a drug-free way to move toward less discomfort.
If you’ve been in pain, visit Dr. Alexander and our team at Legacy Pain and Regenerative Medicine. At our offices in Plano and Addison, Texas, we can customize your chiropractic therapy to you and any condition(s) affecting you.
Here are four ways Dr. Alexander may use chiropractic care to help you.
During this kind of care, Dr. Alexander uses his hands or specialized instruments to adjust your spine. That could mean your lumbar spine (low back), thoracic spine (midback), cervical spine (neck), or wherever else your body will benefit from adjustment.
With gentle manipulation, he works to improve your spinal mobility. In some cases, he can directly target your pain with a specific type of adjustment. If you’ve been dealing with back pain, for example, you might benefit from spinal decompression.
While chiropractic adjustment focuses on improving alignment in your spine, some pain problems stem from an issue in the soft tissue.
For that, Dr. Alexander might use a specialized kind of massage called myofascial release to help with your pain. Your fascia is connective tissue that runs throughout your body. By gently encouraging it to release, Dr. Alexander can help with a range of problems, from migraines to fibromyalgia to carpal tunnel.
He has other tools to help with soft tissue problems, too. He might apply a special kind of tape called kinesio tape to support your muscles and further relieve your pain.
While trigger point release is technically a kind of soft tissue therapy, we’re giving it its own category because it’s so effective for pain relief.
A trigger point is an area of knotted muscle that causes you pain, either directly at the knot or somewhere else. Dr. Alexander can apply chiropractic care to encourage that muscle to release.
We also called trigger points out individually because Dr. Alexander has multiple ways to release these problem areas. If chiropractic care isn’t enough to soothe the trigger point, he can also explore trigger point injections with you.
As part of his chiropractic expertise, Dr. Alexander offers physical therapy. Stretching and strengthening certain areas can help you get lasting pain relief.
Clearly, you have a lot of pain management options that don’t require you to take medication or undergo any sort of procedure. To explore which might be most effective for you, schedule an appointment with Dr. Alexander. Call our team at Legacy Pain and Regenerative Medicine at 972-899-9797 or send us a message online today.
