Muscle Strain
Muscles and supporting tissues can become irritated after lifting, overuse, exercise, repetitive activity, or sudden movement.
Back Pain Treatment in San Antonio
Back pain can make sitting, standing, working, exercising, and even sleeping uncomfortable. Moore Chiropractic provides personalized chiropractic evaluation and conservative care for San Antonio patients dealing with lower back pain, recurring stiffness, injuries, and other musculoskeletal causes of back pain.
Understanding Your Pain
Back pain can come from muscles, joints, discs, nerves, injuries, repetitive strain, or other conditions affecting the spine and surrounding tissues. Determining the likely source is an important first step in choosing appropriate treatment.
Back pain is a symptom rather than a single diagnosis. It may involve localized aching, stiffness, sharp pain with movement, pain after sitting or lifting, reduced mobility, or symptoms traveling into the buttock or leg. Numbness or tingling can occur when nerves are involved.
Common Sources of Back Pain
Lower back pain can arise from several structures and circumstances. These are common possibilities, not the only causes.
Muscles and supporting tissues can become irritated after lifting, overuse, exercise, repetitive activity, or sudden movement.
Small joints in the spine can contribute to localized pain, stiffness, and discomfort with certain movements.
The joints connecting the pelvis and lower spine can sometimes contribute to pain around the lower back, buttock, or pelvic region.
Disc changes may sometimes irritate nearby structures or nerves and can be associated with back pain or radiating symptoms.
Age-related changes in spinal discs and joints may contribute to stiffness or pain in some patients.
Irritation or compression involving a spinal nerve can cause symptoms that travel from the lower back into the buttock or leg.
Long periods of sitting, repetitive movement, lifting, or certain work positions can contribute to musculoskeletal back discomfort.
Back pain may develop after a specific injury or repeated physical stress.
Conservative Care
Chiropractic care may help some patients with musculoskeletal back pain by addressing joint mobility, movement limitations, and related muscle or mechanical factors. Whether chiropractic treatment is appropriate depends on the cause of the pain and the patient's individual evaluation.
Care may include chiropractic adjustments, joint mobilization, movement recommendations, activity modification, posture or ergonomic guidance, appropriate home exercises, and other conservative strategies used by the practice.
Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain can develop when muscles, joints, discs, nerves, or other structures in the lumbar region become irritated or overloaded.
Common situations include lifting something awkwardly, prolonged sitting, repetitive bending, exercise or sports, physically demanding work, sudden twisting, gradual stiffness, and previous injuries.
The same symptom can have different causes, so evaluation matters before deciding on a treatment approach.
Different Types of Back Pain
May involve localized soreness, tightness, tenderness, or discomfort associated with movement or activity.
May involve localized stiffness or pain with certain spinal movements or positions.
Symptoms vary and may include localized back pain or symptoms extending into the leg depending on the structures involved.
Nerve irritation may cause radiating pain, tingling, numbness, burning, or weakness.
Symptoms alone cannot always determine the exact cause. An appropriate examination may be necessary.
Finding the Source
Review when the pain began, where it hurts, what makes it better or worse, previous injuries, daily activities, and relevant health history.
Evaluate relevant movement, mobility, tenderness, and musculoskeletal findings.
Dr. Moore considers whether chiropractic care is appropriate or whether additional evaluation or referral may be needed.
If chiropractic care is appropriate, recommendations are based on your symptoms, findings, goals, and response to care.
Patient Experiences
Understanding Your Symptoms
Acute Back Pain
Acute back pain typically begins relatively recently and may follow lifting, exercise, awkward movement, injury, or sudden strain. The cause and severity still need to be considered.
Chronic / Recurring Back Pain
Back pain that persists or repeatedly returns may involve ongoing mechanical factors, previous injuries, degenerative changes, repetitive loading, movement limitations, or other underlying conditions.
Back Pain & Sciatica
Back pain that travels into the buttock or leg may indicate irritation of a spinal nerve, although several conditions can produce similar symptoms.
Radiating pain, numbness, tingling, burning, or weakness deserve appropriate evaluation. Not all leg pain is sciatica.
Symptoms Matter
Leg symptoms can provide useful clues, but symptoms alone cannot establish the exact cause. Evaluation can help determine whether chiropractic care is appropriate or another assessment is needed.
Know the Warning Signs
Most back pain is not an emergency, but certain symptoms require prompt medical evaluation.
Seek urgent or emergency medical evaluation for new loss of bowel or bladder control, numbness in the groin or saddle area, significant or progressive leg weakness, severe pain after major trauma, fever with significant unexplained back pain, unexplained weight loss with persistent pain, a history of cancer with new unexplained back pain, or severe symptoms that are rapidly worsening.
Personalized Back Pain Care
Dr. Moore has more than three decades of chiropractic experience.
Treatment recommendations are based on your symptoms, findings, goals, and needs.
Chiropractic care provides a non-surgical option for appropriate musculoskeletal back pain cases.
Care is focused on helping patients improve movement and function when clinically appropriate.
Your San Antonio Chiropractor
Dr. Andrew “Andy” Moore is the founder and primary chiropractor at Moore Chiropractic in San Antonio. A 1988 graduate of Parker Chiropractic, he brings more than three decades of chiropractic experience to evaluating and caring for musculoskeletal complaints.
His background as an exercise physiologist and his experience in running, swimming, and triathlons contribute to his practical understanding of movement, activity, and individualized patient goals.
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Convenient San Antonio Location
Moore Chiropractic
8507 McCullough Ave Suite A-1
San Antonio, TX 78216
Phone: (210) 525-9063
Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 7:00 AM–6:00 PM
Friday: 7:00 AM–12:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Moore Chiropractic • San Antonio, TX
If back pain is making it harder to work, exercise, sleep, or enjoy your normal activities, schedule an appointment with Moore Chiropractic to have your symptoms evaluated and determine whether chiropractic care may be appropriate for you.