Empower Your Health: The Ultimate Guide to a Chiropractor in Atlanta, GA

Please excuse the cliche, generic headline. SEO people write terrible  headlines for doctors’ offices. Instead of trying to imagine what some  marketer meant by that headline, I’m going to explain my uniquely  effective treatment approach to patients with neck and back pain.  

It starts with my unique focus on the cause of 98% of neck and back pain.  And it is silly that my conception of the cause, and treatment approach are  unique because it starts with my simple recognition of the fundamental  natural history of the human spine. 

You see, as we age, microscopic  degenerative changes accrue to the spinal disc, starting in childhood.  These microscopic changes aggregate resulting in spinal disc tears, bulging  and herniations. These changes later result in dehydration and collapse of  the disc. As the disc collapses, more pressure is placed on the bones, i.e.  vertebrae, and then the bones and ligaments enlarge and deform. Those  changes then result in less space for the nerves and/or spinal cord, which  we call stenosis. All of these chronological changes are well documented in  all spines and all individuals who get x-rays and MRI scans. So my focus is  every doctor’s implicit knowledge, but they lose focus on this fundamental  premise. And, unfortunately, doctors are very inside-the-box people. They  do what everyone else does. In fact, they have a standard of care that  encourages uniformity, even when it ignores the foundations of  pathophysiology. Sometimes they also develop mimetic fetishes about  uncommon problems like piriformis syndrome, sacroiliac pain, etc.  

And physical therapists don’t really study pathophysiology micro and  macroscopically. Most spinal specialists just don’t think fundamentally  about what they think and do.  

As an aside, I should state for the record that I have worked with many  healthcare providers over the years, and most are very professional and  dedicated people. And many do treatments that are valuable and which I  do not do, and I respect their expertise. My disagreement with them is  very specific, about the most common musculoskeletal complaints; the  neck and the back. 

Additionally, there is a massive business in all specialties of medicine that is  driven by their conventional algorithms and whatever insurance pays them  to do. And it is impossible to change conventional treatment if it means a  loss of money. That is true in every business, including medicine.  

When I evaluate a patient, most have already had diagnostic imaging like  an x-ray or MRI scan, so I can show them the probable compressive  cause(s) of their pain. Does that mean I’m necessarily right? Absolutely  not. Sometimes I don’t have imaging, but can infer the causal problem  from their history and examination.  

After all my experience in spinally decompressing patients since 2006 and  all of my acquired experience, I am very confidant in this concept. And it  allows me to be much more expectant and demanding of improvements in  patients at a fast rate. I tell patients, if I am wrong we will know it very  fast, within several treatments. If that is the case, we will do something  else diagnostically or in treatment. So I get patients better faster than all  other treatments I’ve seen since 1987, or I find them another solution.  

Treatment is also diagnostic. When I diagnose a patient with neck or back  pain that has compressive causation, I will start treatment and tell them  that they must improve fast, or I could be wrong. This is seldom the case.  It the patient does not improve as expected, and they haven’t yet had  diagnostic imaging, then I will order it. There are exceptions to this, when  I must order imaging before treatment, to be sure that treatment is safe,  but this is exceptional. Most spinal pain is terrible, yet benign.  

Looking for a chiropractor in Atlanta, Ga? Or an Atlanta, Ga chiropractor?  In addition to this article, you can learn more by going to my website backstrong. or you can call 404-558-4015.  

How quickly do patients improve? Eighty percent of the time, the first time  I treat a patient, they will experience some improvement; sometimes a lot,  sometimes a little. That is a higher percentage, faster, than other  treatments in my 37 years experience. 

The best way to find out if my unique approach to treatment might have  some unique benefit to you is to quickly come and try the treatment a few  times. Even patients who have had pain for years usually improve with  spinal decompression treatment if it hasn’t been tried before. That  includes patients who have had medications, injections and even surgeries.  Since Dr. Castanet has clinical experience in surgical clinics he can evaluate  the need for pain management or surgery. And he can evaluate for  possible contraindications to this treatment. Call now to 404-558-4015.