Chronic Pain
Understanding Chronic Pain:
Unlike acute pain, which acts as a temporary warning system following a sudden injury, chronic pain persists for weeks, months, or years. It often lingers long after an original injury has healed, or it can develop gradually due to lifestyle factors, repetitive stress, or structural imbalances.
When spinal vertebrae become misaligned, they place constant, uneven pressure on your discs and nerves. This irritation keeps your muscles in a perpetual state of painful, protective guarding spasms. Over time, this chronic cycle alters your posture, restricts your range of motion, and can lead to a heightened sensitivity to pain throughout your entire nervous system.
Chronic pain can be cause by anything from daily life movements and stress to car accidents, surgeries, falls, and sports injuries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Chiropractic adjustments are safe, non-invasive, and completely drug-free interventions. By applying a precise, controlled force to restricted spinal joints, Dr. Ben Kersenbrock restores proper alignment and range of motion to your spine.
When your spine is correctly aligned:
- Nerve Pressure is Relieved: Relieving compressed nerves allows your nervous system to communicate clearly, immediately reducing shooting or radiating pain.
- Inflammation Decreases: Restoring joint mobility stimulates local circulation, allowing your body to flush out inflammatory chemical build-ups.
- Muscles Can Relax: Once the spine is stable, your nervous system can down-regulate, shifting out of an anxious “fight-or-flight” state and allowing chronically tight muscles to release.
- Endorphins are Released: Adjustments trigger the natural release of endorphins, which function as your body’s built-in, non-addictive pain relievers.
- Sleep is Improved: Herniated discs and spinal misalignment can impact your body’s ability to sleep comfortably and achieve REM sleep. When your spine is properly aligned your body can shift into parasympathetic mode, aka, “rest-and-digest”, allowing you to achieve restorative sleep.
- Chronic Pain is Relieve: By fixing underlying structural issues and retraining your nervous system over time, you spine becomes more stable and chronic pain is relieved at its source rather than just temporarily masked.
Recognizing that relief from chronic pain often requires a multidisciplinary approach, Kersenbrock Chiropractic integrates a diverse range of treatment options and therapies to support your healing from chronic pain.
Dr. Ben Kersenbrock pairs customized chiropractic adjustments with holistic healing modalities including:
- Therapeutic Medical Massage: Customized sessions led by Licensed Massage Therapists to break down restrictive scar tissue, improve lymphatic drainage, and untie painful myofascial trigger points.
- Assisted Stretch Therapy: Certified, one-on-one stretch routines using specialized stabilization techniques to safely elongate shortened muscles and unlock stiff joints.
- Acupuncture: Dr. Ben is an ACP-certified acupuncturist, utilizing targeted meridian therapy to stimulate your body’s natural healing pathways and interrupt chronic pain signals in the brain.
- LightForce® Deep Tissue Laser Therapy: An FDA-cleared, class IV medical laser that penetrates deep into damaged tissues to accelerate cellular healing, reduce severe inflammation, and provide rapid pain relief.
At Kersenbrock Chiropractic, we understand that the body has the unique ability to heal, and we are here to support your body with natural, non-invasive, medication-free pain management in Lake Mary, Florida.
Achieve Relief From Chronic Pain Today!