Hollstrom & Associates Inc helps Largo ankylosing spondylitis patients with their back pain.
Flexibility. It’s vital for a body to be flexible. One disease that may take flexibility away is ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing spondylitis isn’t curable, but beneficial care by a knowledgeable practitioner like your Largo chiropractor may help lessen its symptoms and lasting effects. It is an inflammatory disease that over time can trigger your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything give rise to less flexibility. Hollstrom & Associates Inc seeks to maintain flexibility in its Largo chiropractic patients.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients presenting to Hollstrom & Associates Inc frequently have straightforward conditions that make clear their back pain experience. Infrequently, more one-of-a-kind conditions like ankylosing spondylitis turn up, too. In a study 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 time for diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis from a back pain diagnosis to a rheumatology referral was 307 days. (1) Your Largo chiropractor understands the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will establish that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
Hollstrom & Associates Inc, being a Largo back pain specialist clinic, will see ankylosing spondylitis patients as it is a disease that affects the spine. Ankylosing spondylitis most frequently affects the spine, particularly the low back and sometimes the sacroiliac joint. Wherever tendons and ligaments fasten to bone (spine, breastbone to ribs, hip, shoulder joint), ankylosing spondylitis may occur. Ankylosing spondylitis doesn’t start 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 make its sufferer tired, and men are more prone to get ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, Hollstrom & Associates Inc may be able to help influence its fusing ways to help maintain as much flexibility in its fused areas and an upright posture as possible instead of the hyperkyphosis curving that often comes to an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW Largo CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP Largo ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing Largo 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 performed in addition to the typical clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, mixing medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can draw some relief in terms of pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your Largo chiropractor successfully and enthusiastically collaborates with Largo healthcare colleagues to help Largo chiropractic patients find the gentle care they require.
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