It can be a minor irritation or a life-changing debilitation. He's an expert in pain medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania. He can answer all your questions about pain, whether it be the pain of recovering from surgery, cancer pain or the everyday ouches. Many people use chiropractors for pain control.
Manipulation is the manual loading of the spine using short or long leverage methods.
It's usually thought to be safe and effective in the first month of acute low back symptoms, as long as the symptoms do not go down the patients legs. The National Institute of Health, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research offers clinical guidelines for low back pain. That includes the use of manipulation of the spine as performed by osteopathic physicians or chiropractors. A lot of people have told me it probably is Sciatica. The spine is made up of lots of bones called vertebrae and they are stacked one on top of the other with the discs in between.