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What is better for lower back pain chiropractic therapy or physical therapy?

Time span of when physical therapy will help fix my back pain?

  • I'm 22 years old and I've had back pain for 12 years now. There was no accident or injury, it just appeared one day. I've tried everything you can probably think to solve it aside from a medicine man and I was just wondering, for lower back pain, how long does it typically take for physical therapy to help? I've done it before, but I left after three months because I didn't see any improvement. I know the time span is different for each individual, I am just looking for a ball park estimate. I mean, I don't want to go to physical therapy for ten years and realize all of the money was wasted because it didn't make a difference.

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    Have you tried going to a doctor?? at least they will do some xrays, cat scans, mri, whatever and find out what the problem is. all you're doing is treating the symptoms, not the problem. you may have some degenerative disc problem, herniated disc, etc and physical therapy will do nothing for those. see a doctor and get an answer to your problem

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The physical therapist will be able to answer this question the best. Back pain is an extremely complicated and ridiculous thing to figure out. There are THOUSANDS of research being done on back pain, from the MD/DO perspective, PT perspective, and other health professions like DC, nursing, OT, etc. Your best bet is to find an OCS and/or FAAOMPT physical therapist, as these are the go-to people and you'll know you're in great hands, literally. They'll examine, evaluate, diagnose in addition to whatever your physician suggested you have. After so many sessions and you're not improving even a bit, the PT will tell you and refer you back to your MD for other conservative, non-PT interventions out there.

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