Are you in pain? Has your back felt like it’s been pulling and catching for days – if not longer? If you’re suffering from lower back pain, whether it’s been a day or a week, or a month, it’s important to gain a full understanding of why your back is hurting, whether there’s anything that needs to be corrected in your back, and how you can avoid lower back pain in the future. At Nokomis Chiropractic and Wellness, our chiropractors and massage therapists offer patients valuable lower back pain treatments that include spinal adjustments, massage, and exercises to help ensure you have a way to find back pain relief even at home. If you’re looking for a lower back pain chiropractor in South Minneapolis, MN, you’ve found us; now let us help you target the source of your pain head on and get you back to living your life pain-free.

Common Causes of Lower Back Pain

If you’re unsure of how you may have injured your back, you’re not alone. Often times, lower back injuries are the result of some small strain that you didn’t feel when it happened, but over a number of hours, a small strain can become quite painful. However, sometimes lower back pain is the result of a more serious problem. Knowing what’s causing your back pain will help us determine the best chiropractic back pain treatment to use, so getting acquainted with your symptoms and the timing of your back pain is important to helping us diagnose your pain. Common causes of lower back pain include:

• Injuries, including sports injuries, personal injuries, work injuries and auto accident injuries
• Whiplash, often sustained during a car accident
• Repetitive stress injuries, often caused by activities at work or repetitive daily tasks
• Poor posture
• Arthritis
• Obesity
• Herniated discs, when the cushioning between vertebrae has moved
• Subluxations, or a partial dislocation in the spine
• Stress-related back pain
• Strains and sprains

Lower Back Pain Chiropractic Treatments

If you’re suffering from any of these causes of lower back pain – or perhaps a less common cause of back pain – our chiropractors will ensure that you have the best treatment possible getting you on you’re on your way to healing in no time. We create back pain treatment plans that are tailored to your back injury or source of pain, incorporating spinal adjustments on a set schedule in addition to any massage therapy that may speed up recovery!

Tips for Avoiding Back Pain

For many people we see, avoiding back pain is possible by making lifestyle decisions that positively affect the movement and health of your back. To avoid back pain, we recommend remaining active, warming up and/or stretching before exercising or beginning any type of physical activity, avoiding long periods of inactivity, maintaining good posture – or correcting poor posture – and maintaining (or adopting) a healthy diet and weight. At Nokomis Chiropractic and Wellness& and Wellness, South Minneapolis, Minnesota back pain chiropractors will help you find back pain relief from the first appointment, so don’t wait to contact us at 612-822-0149!