BACK PAIN FACTS IN ST. LOUIS

More than 50% of our back pain patients are people who have failed with other treatments. We helped change their lives, and we feel confident we can change your life, too. So we do what few other medical clinics do. We offer a completely free consultation; a chance to come to our clinic, get a complete medical evaluation, meet our team of medical professionals, and see if you’re a candidate for our innovative new approach. The consultation is completely free. You have absolutely nothing to lose, but your back pain.

What Causes Lower Back Pain?

It’s a common story that we see all too often. When you have back pain, life can stop in its tracks. Depending on the severity of back pain and the location affected, back pain can cause you to miss work, commitments with your friends, and spend less time with your family. In short, back pain causes you to lose out on your life.

From back pain caused by accidents to conditions of the spine, we have developed an innovative, non-surgical pain system that helps our patients get back to health and focus on an active lifestyle.

While sciatica is one of the most common causes that we treat, St Louis Back and Knee Center is an expert in identifying the causes of back pain so that we may recommend an effective treatment plan. From injury to disease to poor lifestyle choices, back pain can happen to anyone at any given point in their lifetime. In fact, the total cost of back pain in the United States is estimated to be in excess of $60 billion annually.

While poor posture, decreases in physical activity, increases in work demands are among the typical causes of chronic back pain. Old injuries and a failure to rehabilitate the damaged tissues after an incident can also contribute to this problem.

• Lower Back Pain: Muscle spasms, leg numbness, and pain in the muscles and bones of the lower back, legs, or hips.
• Pinched Nerves: Compressing the nerves of the spine can happen when exercising, lifting too much weight, or poor posture can create back pain also coupled with numbness and weakness.
• Bulging & Degenerative Discs: When we age, vertebrae in our spine can become compressed and the discs between them get thinner. This can cause the bones to pinch and put pressure on the surrounding nerves, or move out of their normal position, causing pain and discomfort.
• Spinal Stenosis: Cramping and pain in the legs after long periods of walking and standing can be symptoms of spinal stenosis.
• Failed Surgery: More than half of our patients are those who failed with other treatments, even back surgery. Our approach is comprehensive and specially tailored to relieve your pain without surgery or prescription medication.

1. Cold Laser To Reduce Inflammation: To get to the source of your back pain, it requires relaxing surrounding muscles that are either inflamed or in spasm. That’s why we begin our comprehensive back pain multi-step protocol with our proprietary cold laser therapy. This helps to immediately reduce pain and inflammation. It also helps the supporting muscles to be more pliable and receptive to effective treatment and accelerates repair of scarred and damaged tissue.
2. Injection Therapy to Accelerate Healing: With a goal of true, long-term back pain relief, we then implement a series of all-natural injection protocols to further strengthen key supporting muscles surrounding the spine. Using bioactive proteins and growth factors from your own blood, these injections help to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles, and joints. As the growth factors take hold, this healing process continues for months after treatment. As a result, your back health and muscle strength will continue to get stronger even after our comprehensive therapies are complete.
3. Decompression Therapy
4. Alignment & Bracing
5. Posture & Mobility