Pinched Nerve Treatment in Rockford, IL

A thorough exam is how your doctor finds it, and where you feel it is the first clue. Pain, numbness, or tingling in your shoulder, arm, or hand usually traces back to your neck, and in your buttock, leg, or foot it usually traces back to your lower back. When pain shoots down your leg, it is commonly called sciatica. Numbness in the hand is often blamed on the wrist, and sometimes the wrist is involved, which is why your doctor checks your neck and the full path of the nerve, as our carpal tunnel page explains.

The pain sometimes eases on its own, and the problem that caused it often stays. Nerve pain can settle with rest or medication while the joint, disc, or posture problem crowding the nerve is still there, which is why it tends to return, often in the same spot. Getting examined identifies what is pressing on the nerve so it can be corrected, and the longer numbness or weakness goes on, the more important it becomes to find out why.

Our care is effective because it starts with a thorough spinal exam that identifies which level of your spine is involved and what is crowding the nerve there. Your care plan is then built to correct that problem, based on your specific findings and personal goals, using evidence-based treatments that each do a different job and make the others work better:

• Chiropractic adjustments restore proper movement to the spinal joints around the irritated nerve.
• Spinal decompression takes pressure off the disc and the nerve, and this office offers three different methods.
• Spinal traction, based on Chiropractic BioPhysics and set up precisely from your own X-rays, corrects your spinal curves and posture to help keep open the space the nerve passes through.
• Stretch therapy eases the tight muscles along the path of the nerve.
• Physical therapy and corrective exercises strengthen and stabilize the muscles that support your neck and back.
• Cold laser therapy and electrical muscle stimulation reduce pain & inflammation and support tissue healing.

Your first visit begins with a consultation and health history, followed by a thorough spinal exam, postural assessment, functional & orthopedic testing, and spinal X-rays if your doctor finds they are needed. From there, your doctor walks you through a clear & detailed report of findings, so you understand where the nerve is being irritated, what can be done to help, and what your best next steps are. You will have the opportunity to ask questions, review your options, and make the decision that is right for you. The $21 New Patient Special covers the consultation and health history, the thorough exam, spinal X-rays if needed, and the report of findings. (Excludes Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and PI/Workers' Comp claimants.)

It is an emergency when you lose bladder or bowel control, have numbness in the groin or inner thighs, or have numbness or weakness that spreads fast. Sudden weakness on one side of the body with a severe headache, trouble speaking, or a drooping face are signs of a stroke. Any of these calls for emergency medical care right away. A foot that catches on the floor or a hand that keeps dropping things are reasons to be examined soon. For everything short of an emergency, Evolve Chiropractic works alongside your medical doctor, and we will tell you plainly when your exam points to something that belongs with them.

Evolve Chiropractic of Rockford Crossings is at 290 N Mill Rd, suite 5-7, on the northwest corner of N Mill Rd and State St, at the east end of the Rockford Crossings Shopping Center between Aldi and Lyfe Dispensary by Target. Parking is at the door. Patients from Rockford, Loves Park, Cherry Valley, Belvidere, and Machesney Park see us here for pinched nerve care, and Evolve Chiropractic also has a second Rockford office on Broadway.