If you suffer from back pain, Long Beach chiropractic care can help you to feel better.

Back pain may have many different causes. The pain can be caused by injury. That injury might have been caused at your home, work or in an automobile accident. Other pain is caused through the aging process. Still other pain may be caused by genetic conditions. In any case, sufferers of back pain may look for a long time before finding relief.

If you have been in an accident or injured in another way, it is possible that the your spine is out of alignment. A doctor of chiropractic has spent several years and hundreds of hours in training to help bring you pain relief by helping to bring your spine back into alignment.

Back pain may also be caused by the aging process. The source of the pain may not be related to an injury. For example, arthritis can lead to back pain. So can the narrowing of the channels that are used to protect the nerves of the spine. Other sources may include discs that have become compressed with age or may bulge or even rupture. Each of the conditions may cause back pain that chiropractic care can help to relieve.

A doctor of chiropractic will begin by taking a medical history and physically examine your back to find reason you are experiencing back pain.

The doctor may be able to determine the cause of your back pain from the medical history and by feeling of your back. He may need to take some x-rays or use other diagnostic tools to find the source of your pain.

However, many chiropractic patients find that the doctor's simple spinal adjustment is the first step of the healing process.