A viral chiropractor video features a woman role playing with a bag of potato chips, crunching them in sudden movements while she tells the bag to try to relax. In a world of TikTok virality, loads of attention-grabbing videos are centered around the chiropractor. Most feature real patients with real chiropractors as genuine cracks and pops come from their joints. They’re hard to ignore, but the point is the healing such treatments encourage.
While pain management has meant big business for pharmaceutical companies and big headlines on the fallout of pain medication abuse, chiropractic care offers something drastically different. Platforms like TikTok merely highlight the modality as the content goes quickly viral.
Dr. Philip Cook, founder of Cook Chiropractic Clinic in Garland, shared his perspective on care for those in pain and looking for relief. He explained how chiropractic care fundamentally caters to finding the underlying problem, and generally, with the spine and nervous system.
“Whereas pharmaceutical drug treatment commonly is prescribed for pain relief, chiropractic care fundamentally is focused on finding and correcting the root cause of the presented symptom,” he said.
Patients may often seek out chiropractic care for relief for pain, inflammation, and muscle spasms. That search has begun only after those patients have already attempted symptomatic relief through medication, said Dr. Cook. It’s not unusual for such patients to have already tried multiple medications and doctors.
“As a Doctor of Chiropractic, I am very interested in relieving the patient’s pain or other symptoms,” he said. But instead of masking the symptoms with medication, Dr. Cook’s largest goal and challenge is to relieve the pain or symptoms through correction or improvement of the cause and guide them to a functional direction of healing.
Game-Changing Pain Relief
As a practitioner in the Garland area since 1986, Dr. Cook’s steady hands guide patients to recovery. Specializing in cranial alignments, he can address headaches, joint pain, and even memory and concentration issues. Many are surprised by the use of chiropractic care for the alleviation of neck, shoulder, and back pain, or even help with back, leg, foot, and ankle pain. Even Olympic athletes have a favored chiropractor, after all. Those injured in a car or sports injury are also common chiropractic clients, but Dr. Cook also treats other serious, chronic issues like peripheral neuropathy and chronic knee pain.
Time On Your Side
Healing through chiropractic alignment is not always instant. The same way a patient would never expect one session of an aesthetic skin treatment to overhaul their skin’s health, a patient should expect more than one appointment with their chiropractor in many cases. Effective treatment recruits the body to heal itself, but time is crucial. Many conditions are time sensitive in that they worsen the longer they are present.
Patients may also be surprised to learn that contrary to those who imagine chiropractors distrust other medical approaches, chiropractic practitioners are often pleased to receive information from fellow healers.
“Whereas pharmaceutical drug treatment commonly is prescribed for pain relief, chiropractic care fundamentally is focused on finding and correcting the root cause of the presented symptom.”
