Protecting Your Health from Winter Woes

Dr. Craig Day offers non-surgical relief for back and neck pain.

Dr. Craig Day can help you achieve pain relief without surgery.

Dr. Craig Day warns Tulsa residents: it is best to be prepared to protect your health and your body from low temps, snow and ice that come every year. Some years are worse than others.

“Before that first snowflake falls, it’s important for you to visit our office to ensure you are in top form,’’ Dr. Day urges. He also asks, do you know how much of a significant risk shoveling snow can be? “It’s significant. Don’t learn the hard way and end up in the hospital.”

 Located at 31st and Harvard, Dr. Day’s office provides a full spectrum of chiropractic services. There is no good reason to live with back or neck pain, and his mission is to provide relief and help clients avoid surgery.

People experience pain for many reasons. Sometimes, regular activity can cause trauma to vertebra over time, taking months or years to become painful enough to hinder daily life.     

For others, a specific event causes injury. Shoveling snow or taking down, packing and storing holiday decorations, both inside or outside, can leave you virtually immobile the next morning.

In these cases, it is always best to proactively seek therapy. If swift action is not taken to correct the spine’s alignment, the nerves within the spinal cord will continue to cause pain, which will only grow in intensity. Seldom do these types of injuries work themselves out, no matter how insistent our belief.

It is also common, however, for people to believe that back surgery is the most effective way to treat spine-related pain. This all-or-nothing approach is unnecessary, says Dr. Day, who has a record of helping scores of patients avoid the operating room. “If you have tried everything, this may be your last stop.”

Those who experience lower back pain, sciatica, bulging or herniated disc, spinal stenosis, pinched nerve, degenerative disc disease, or accident or work related injuries are likely to find relief at Dr. Day’s office.

Some patients may discover a simple alignment does the trick. Others – especially those with more severe pain – may be intrigued to learn of non-surgical spinal decompression (NSSD).

Dr. Day utilizes the latest technology, a device called the DRX9000, to relieve the nerve compression that causes pain. By applying distraction force to specific areas, it provides relief from pain related to bulging and herniated discs, sciatica and even degenerative disc disease.

“Patients think it is the coolest thing,” says Dr. Day. “They have never done anything like this, but it feels really good. And it is good for them.”

Compared to back surgery, NSSD represents an attractive option for addressing back pain. Patients can avoid the cost of surgery, as well as the recovery time and physical therapy.

Whether your back pain is a long-time ailment or a recent injury from dealing with winter, it is best to seek treatment now. Dr. Day and his staff are ready to help you find relief and get back to living a happier life.

For more information, contact

Dr. Craig Day

www.drxforlife.com

About Author Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher is a retired, award-winning newspaperman who continues to write as a freelance writer and photographer. He owned the Tulsa Front Page weekly and was executive editor to Neighbor Newspapers' 13 metro newspapers. Currently, he writes for Value News and has become a paid assignment screenwriter, along with a University of Oklahoma professor who wrote Brad Pitt's first feature film. His award-winning screenplay is on the historical Osage Indian Murders of the 1920s.