Conditions We Treat – Lower Back Pain

What Causes Low Back Pain?

One of the most common causes of lower back pain is strain in the lumbar spine from over or improper use of the muscles surrounding the spinal bones. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyles often include poor posture while sitting for extended periods of time and decreased physical movement, which results in excess weight, tight muscles, and chronic or acute low back pain.

Disc injuries and sciatica can also cause severe pain, muscle weakness, and numbness in the low back. Oftentimes, the symptoms radiate downward resulting in leg pain or leg weakness. Other causes of chronic back pain could stem from spinal stenosis, abnormal spinal curvatures, and even neurological disorders affecting the spinal cord and nerve roots.

Low back pain doesn’t just happen to those who are elderly or severely injured. The condition can be a result of a variety of causes, including:

A Holistic Approach to Natural Pain Management

When you are suffering from acute or chronic pain, you might find some back pain relief by taking a muscle relaxant or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, applying heating pads, and remaining on bed rest. However, these actions may not provide relief long-term as your pain worsens.

At Oak Brook Medical Group, we believe in treating the root cause of your pain for permanent relief as opposed to masking the symptoms with pain medication or other temporary solutions.

Whether you have acute pain, severe back pain, or chronic lower back pain, our medical professionals will work with you on an individualized plan and will administer customized treatments to bring you pain relief. Our team will also educate you about home treatment and lifestyle changes, such as maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, getting routine chiropractic adjustments, and so on, to help you enjoy long-lasting results.

Our licensed professionals will perform a physical examination to get an accurate diagnosis of the issue causing pain. It is our mission to combine nonsurgical treatments and alternative medicine to provide lower back pain treatment.

Our natural pain management services include:

• Chiropractic Care
• Physical Therapy
• Massage Therapy
• Trigger Point Injections
• Viscosupplementation Injections
• Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Injections

Our goal is to relieve your chronic and acute back pain as quickly and naturally as possible. Oak Brook physical therapists and other medical professionals will help you develop the necessary knowledge and skills to eliminate or manage your pain effectively.

Physical Therapy

If you are experiencing acute low back pain from a muscle strain, dull pain signals from a pinched nerve, or severe pain from significant trauma, our chiropractors and physical therapist specialists at Oak Brook Medical Group will work with you on an individualized treatment plan to relieve pain and muscle spasms.

We know that when pain occurs in one area of the body, oftentimes the cause originates from a completely different area. This understanding calls for a holistic approach to healing the root cause of your low back pain. Our physical therapy team uses a combination of stretching, strengthening exercises, manual manipulation, and other therapeutic modalities to help strengthen your back and abdominal muscles to support your spinal column.

Spinal manipulation techniques can help relieve pain related to nerve compression. When the spinal nerves are being pinched, it can cause significant back pain and numbness in the legs. Through physical therapy, you can improve muscle strength, mobility, flexibility, coordination, and balance to avoid pain caused by pinched nerves.