About Baton Rouge Chiropractic and Baton Rouge Short Leg
Do you notice your shoes wear strangely on one shoe than the other? Do you find that your knees hurt? Well, you may have one leg shorter than the other.
one leg's being shorter than the other
11% of people reportedly have a short leg.
Having a short leg is like driving a car with two different sized tires on the rear axle. It throws your back out.
A short leg can be due to a variety of situations that the doctor may address first before addressing your short leg. We at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will determine if the short leg is truly due to structure. If it is, you will likely be fitted with a heel lift to correct the inequality. If the inequality is larger, you may need to add a little at a time to allow your spine to adjust. In addition to correcting the difference, your chiropractic physician will align your spine with spinal manipulation.
A thorough, clinical examination that may include imaging is important to your short leg diagnosis and management.
In office, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers uses Cox Technic Flexion Distraction and Decompression to widen the canal space, drop the intradiscal pressure and increase the disc height to relieve any pain provoked by your short leg.
You will welcome the Cox Technic manipulation that gently "pulls you apart," as many patients describe the treatment or say they need. Depending on the severity of your pain and symptoms, gentler Protocol I may be applied until 50% relief of pain or more restoring Protocol II may be applied to guide your relief.
In office adjunctive care may hasten your recovery.
At home, if your short leg is bothering your spine, you may want to avoid sitting for long periods of time, take nutritional supplements that help rebuild disc cartilage, wear any special shoe inserts as recommended, do exercises that strengthen your spine, sleep on a supportive mattress, sit in an ergonomically designed chair, and modify your daily activities as needed.
Contact Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers for management of your short leg.