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 beneficial care by a experienced practitioner like your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor may help diminish its symptoms and lasting effects. It is an inflammatory disease that in time can cause your spinal bones, the vertebrae, to fuse. Fusing anything makes it less flexible. New Hampshire Spine and Sport looks to keep its Southern New Hampshire chiropractic patients as flexible as possible.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IS
Patients coming to New Hampshire Spine and Sport frequently have clear-cut conditions that describe their back pain experience. Occasionally, more unique conditions like ankylosing spondylitis arrive, too. In a study of 3336 patients with ankylosing spondylitis, most ankylosing spondylitis patients were diagnosed outside of rheumatology practices. The majority 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 referral to a rheumatologist was 307 days. (1) Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor knows the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis and will make that referral as necessary.
WHAT ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS AFFECTS
New Hampshire Spine and Sport, being a Southern New Hampshire back pain specialist clinic, will see ankylosing spondylitis patients as it is a disease that affects the spine. Ankylosing spondylitis most commonly involves 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 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 likely to suffer with ankylosing spondylitis than women. While ankylosing spondylitis does its fusion thing, New Hampshire Spine and Sport may be able to help guide 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 results in an ankylosing spondylitis spine.
HOW Southern New Hampshire CHIROPRACTIC MAY HELP Southern New Hampshire ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS SUFFERERS
Diagnosing Southern New Hampshire ankylosing spondylitis may be complex in some cases as symptoms may range from neck pain and stiffness to low back pain and hip pain. For some, imaging (MRI, xray) and lab tests are done in addition to the typical clinical examination. Once diagnosed though, mixing medical treatment via a rheumatologist with chiropractic treatment (spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic) can bring about some relief in terms of pain reduction and improved activities of daily living. (2) Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor effectively and enthusiastically collaborates with Southern New Hampshire healthcare colleagues to help Southern New Hampshire chiropractic patients find the gentle care they need.
CONTACT New Hampshire Spine and Sport
Schedule a Southern New Hampshire chiropractic visit for Southern New Hampshire back pain relief. If ankylosing spondylitis is your back pain condition, know that New Hampshire Spine and Sport is here to help. New Hampshire Spine and Sport is all about keeping Southern New Hampshire spines as flexible as possible and allowing Southern New Hampshire chiropractic patients to do all their activities of daily living they want.