If you suffer from chronic or acute back pain, headaches or carpal tunnel pain from repetitive motion, there are proven ways to heal through chiropractic care – but how well do you know the causes of your pain and treatment options? Take this quiz of 6 questions and increase your healing intelligence! Answers are below.
- What are the main causes of back pain?
- Sports injury
- Car accident
- Sudden movement that causes wrenching
- Stretching the wrong way
- All of the above
- What is the chiropractor’s main and safest methods of healing back pain?
- He gives you 2 aspirin and tells you to call him in the morning.
- Exercises that only have a temporary impact – but at least the pain is gone for now.
- Spinal manipulation/spinal mobilization, along with exercise, massage and physical therapy.
- Pain relievers
- What is spinal manipulation versus spinal mobilization?
- Spinal manipulation is a high velocity, low amplitude thrust, versus mobilization, which is a low-force or gentle technique
- Manipulation is bending and twisting; mobilization is massage.
- Both manipulation and mobilization involve meditation.
- In one you sit in a chair, in the other, you’re standing.
- Spinal manipulation therapy has been found particularly useful in easing what sort of pain?
- Tension-type headaches that occur in the neck.
- Pain of the wrist
- Cuts and bruises
- All of the above
- According to a 2001 study, what did spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) do for people with headaches?
- Helped in the short term, but gave them more side effects
- Results took time and only lasted a few weeks
- Provided immediate relief with significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting results.
- Was seen as equal to the results of pain medication
- What are some of the ways a chiropractor solves problems associated with carpel tunnel syndrome?
- He makes you sit and type and observes your movements
- He bends your wrist all the way back to see if you yell
- He traces the nerve back up into the neck to see if there are multiple problem areas before initiating treatment.
- None of the above
- The effects of spinal manipulation have been shown to include:
- Temporary relief of musculoskeletal pain
- Shortened time to recover from acute back pain
- Increase in passive range of motion (ROM)]
- Physiological effects on the central nervous system
- All of the above
- What are the proven benefits of routine chiropractic care?
- Improved nerve communication in the body
- Improved Joint Motion and Coordination
- Improved Physical Function and Performance
- Improved Posture
- All of the above
Answers: 1e; 2c; 3a; 4a; 5c; 6c; 7e, 8e