Spinal Care of Wilmington

Our mission is to provide the most advanced technology which will provide quick and long-lasting relief for chronic, severe low back pain sufferers. This is accomplished through non-surgical spinal decompression.

Phone: 910-798-5560
Fax: 910-798-5561
Address: 211 Racine Dr., Suite 202
Wilmington, NC 28403

http://www.spinalcareofwilmington.com/

Our Five Greatest Assets:

• We have excellent results with extremely difficult cases.
• We are the only office in the Wilmington area offering non-surgical spinal decompression.
• Besides spinal decompression, we also offer cold laser therapy, hydro-massage therapy, intersegmental traction, and many other therapies.
• From the moment you walk in our doors you become part of our family.
• We make it a priority that everyone can afford non-surgical spinal decompression by offering "zero-interest" payment plans.

• Herniated or bulging discs
• Posterior facet syndrome
• Acute or chronic back pain
• Degenerative disc disease

Have you been told "you have to learn to live with it"?
Have you been to different doctors, each who had a different opinion?
Have you tried different treatments but still experience constant pain?
Have you had to restrict or discontinue your favorite activities due to pain?
Have you experienced depression or a stress related disorder due to pain?
Have you been forced to rely on drugs to relieve your pain?

It is necessary to differentiate between pain in the lower back and pain, which radiates down the leg. It is common for the layperson to combine them into one category, but to a physician or surgeon, they represent different pathologies.

Lower Back Pain
Low back pain is not due to the pressure on a nerve root, as lower extremity pain is. Most low back pain is muscular or mechanical in nature, caused by overexertion, overuse, strain or sprain of the ligaments and tendons of the low back. It may also be attributed to degeneration of the disk space and facet joints, which hold the spine together. It may be caused additionally by arthritis or stenosis or referred symptoms from organ involvement (bladder, gall bladder, kidney, prostate). One must also rule out organic causes as any form of cancer, especially prostrate CA.

Lower extremity (leg) pain
Lower extremity (leg) pain is often seen to radiate, termed "radicular pain." This refers to pain which shoots down the leg, from the low back or buttock. It usually results from pressure on a nerve, which produces a ”pinching” of the nerve, which appears to radiate down the leg in the distribution of the nerve pattern. When the "pinching" of the nerve is mild, one may experience numbness or tingling. As it progresses and becomes more severe, pain may develop. Further progression may present actual damage to the nerve and weakness may also result.