Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers helps Baton Rouge ankylosing spondylitis patients with their back pain.
Flexibility. It’s vital for a body to be flexible. One disease that may prevent flexibility is ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis isn’t curable, but good care by a well-informed practitioner like your Baton Rouge chiropractor may help lessen its symptoms and lasting effects. It is an inflammatory disease that in time can trigger your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything makes it less flexible. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers seeks to maintain flexibility in its Baton Rouge chiropractic patients.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients visiting Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers regularly have clear-cut conditions that explain their back pain experience. Sometimes, more one-of-a-kind conditions like ankylosing spondylitis turn up, too. In a research investigation of 3336 patients with ankylosing spondylitis, most ankylosing spondylitis patients were diagnosed in other healthcare settings instead of rheumatology practices. Most were diagnosed by other practitioners while 7% were diagnosed by chiropractors or PTs. The median timeframe for diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis from a diagnosis of back pain to a rheumatology referral was 307 days. (1) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor understands the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will set up that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers, being a Baton Rouge back pain specialist clinic, will see ankylosing spondylitis patients as it is a spine-related disease. Ankylosing spondylitis most commonly affects the spine, especially the low back and occasionally the sacroiliac joint. Wherever tendons and ligaments fasten to bone (spine, breastbone to ribs, hip, shoulder joint), ankylosing spondylitis may arise. Ankylosing spondylitis does not begin and does its thing then stop. It may come and go, be worse and better, be off and on, for months or years. Ankylosing spondylitis may cause fatigue, and men are more prone to get ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers may be able to help influence its fusing ways to help keep as much flexibility in its fused areas and an upright posture as possible instead of the hyperkyphosis curving that often results in an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP Baton Rouge ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing Baton Rouge ankylosing spondylitis may be complicated in some cases as symptoms may range from neck pain and stiffness to low back pain and hip pain. In some cases, imaging (MRI, xray) and lab tests are done in addition to the classic clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, combining medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can draw some relief like pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor successfully and eagerly collaborates with Baton Rouge healthcare colleagues to assist Baton Rouge chiropractic patients find the gentle care they need.
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