As a Mission Viejo chiropractor for over 35 years, I have seen the most of hip, sacroiliac, and leg problems of any other condition. This is simply because the lower back problem is the #1 problem in the United States.
The best chiropractor in Mission Viejo knows that your hips are a masterpiece of engineering that has to be kept in balance. You sit on them, need them to walk, of course, your legs connect to them, and they provide an attachment for dozens of muscles and ligaments.
But like any precision instrument, if they’re not fitting just right, all kinds of problems could arise. Do you joints “click” when you walk? Do your feet flare out or in? Does one leg appear shorter than the other? Do you have a leg, knee, buttock, hip, or lower back weakness or pain?
If your answer was “yes” to any of those questions, it is an important time to get a checkup by a chiropractic specialist, someone who doesn’t do any traditional “popping and cracking” of the spine but can correct this type of a problem.
Chiropractors correct subluxations. Subluxations are a distortion, jamming, or locking of your structural system that irritates, pulls, or compresses (“pinches”) your nerves; unbalances your posture, weakens your discs; stretches your ligaments, tendons, and muscles and can upset your general health.
As terrible as all of this sounds, many times subluxations are often initially painless. You may have one right now and not even know it because you don’t feel it. It is similar to the time you go to the dentist with no toothache, but he takes your annual x-rays and finds a cavity that doesn’t hurt, but it needs to be fixed.
When you were born you had many more bones that had not yet fused together. For example, your hips were actually 3 bones that eventually grew together by the time you reached puberty.
Your hip joint is where the two bones meet to form a ball-and-socket joint. Many times people refer to their hip, but they are actually pointing to the joint in the back of the pelvis called the sacro-iliac joint, abbreviated SI joint.
In most people, when there is lower back pain, there is an unbalance in the alignment of the hip joints. It can also lead to one of the most severe pains people can get called “sciatica”. The misalignment of the hip joints and lower back pain leads to radiating pain down to the buttock, back of the leg, and sometimes all the way to the feet causing numbness.
The best chiropractor in Mission Viejo can test your spine and realize what is causing what and ideally correct it so it stays away.
The nerves that come from that same area also can affect the organs of the body in that area. This can include the bladder, kidneys, reproductive organs in men and women, and lower intestines.
For over 100 years, chiropractors have known the connection between the lower back and many other dysfunctions in the spine. Your hips must be balanced for your lower back to stay aligned.
Once your hip and lower back are aligned, then your collar bones can go into alignment. This takes away the low shoulder and a lot of middle and upper back pain. As your body continues to heal itself and straighten from the bottom up, the neck can go into balance as a result of the leveling of the shoulders.
Finally, the jaw joint, TMJ, goes into balance and is corrected functionally about 80% of the time just from correcting the neck. This allows the head and the most important 1st bone in the spine, the atlas, to go back into balance and your spine is corrected.
As a Mission Viejo Chiropractic Specialist, I don’t do any traditional manual adjusting. I will never be “popping and cracking” your back and neck. My treatment is designed to correct so you can have body function at an optimum level.
If that is possible with your particular condition, I will design a program to correct your spine to the fullest for you.
Chiropractic checkups should be part of your family’s healthcare regime. This is especially important for children since lower back problems may have their origins in childhood.
I also see in many cases that a person had a neck problem and/or headaches and he had received a lot of treatment from medical doctors and other chiropractors, but it will not go away. In virtually every case, the underlying problem that he has is the misalignments uncorrected in the lower back.
Everyone has been trying to treat the problem where it hurts, instead of the underlying cause messing up the spine from the foundation upward. When we correct the lower back and hips at the same time, your body will heal itself from the bottom up and the neck problems will go away.
After 38 years of experience, I am able to correct these types of problems. Why should you wait?
If you call or come to our office, please mention this writing and the entire first visit will only cost $25. It is very thorough and normally is priced at $290. This is your chance to see if the best chiropractor in Mission Viejo can correct your problem.
All the best,
Dr. David C. Manago D. C.
