Numbness and Tingling

If you are experiencing numbness and tingling, you may be curious about whether chiropractic care can help alleviate your symptoms. Chiropractors specialize in aligning the spine and relieving pressure on nerves, making them well-suited to address issues related to nerve function. Fortunately, chiropractic adjustments can indeed help many individuals find relief from tingling and numbness. To determine if chiropractic care is suitable for your specific case, it is important to understand the underlying cause of the numbness.

Understanding the Cause of Numbness

Numbness and tingling serve as signals from your body, indicating that something is affecting your nerves. It could be a sign of localized nerve damage or compression of a nerve in another area of your body. When discussing numbness, you may come across four main terms:

1. Neuropathy
2. Paresthesia
3. Dysesthesia
4. Peripheral Neuropathy

Neuropathy and peripheral neuropathy are essentially the same condition, referring to damage to the peripheral nerves. This damage can result from various underlying conditions, such as diabetes. Individuals with peripheral neuropathy commonly experience numbness, prickling, tingling, or burning sensations.

Paresthesia describes the “pins and needles” sensation that people often experience. If you’ve ever had a limb “fall asleep,” you are familiar with the sensation of paresthesia. Dysesthesia, on the other hand, refers to feelings of itching, pain, burning, shocking, or tightening in the nerves. While neuropathy typically presents as paresthesia, it can occasionally manifest as dysesthesia.

How Chiropractic Care Can Help

At Spring Back Chiropractic in Surprise, AZ, we specialize in diagnosing and treating numbness and tingling. If your symptoms are caused by nerve compression, chiropractic adjustments can effectively reduce or eliminate the associated discomfort. Even if your symptoms stem from another condition, chiropractic care may provide relief. In fact, many individuals choose us as their chiropractor for foot numbness, seeking assistance in alleviating the foot discomfort commonly associated with diabetes.

Our chiropractic approach focuses on promoting spine health and overall wellness. Through precise vertebrae manipulation, chiropractic adjustments can alleviate pressure on nerves, allowing for optimal nerve function. By treating pain in the neck, back, muscles, and joints, we address underlying issues that may contribute to numbness and tingling. Our comprehensive care extends beyond symptom relief, aiming to promote wellness through posture alignment, subluxation treatment, disc pain relief, extremity mobilization, and injury rehabilitation.