Low back and leg pain
When low back pain starts running down the leg
Getting out of the truck, standing up from a chair at the end of a shift, walking the aisles at the grocery store. Three doctors in New Castle look at how your low back and leg are actually moving before deciding how to help.
Chapter 01
What Lawrence County notices first
Low back pain rarely announces itself as an emergency. More often it's the moment getting out of the truck takes an extra second, or the stretch from the recliner to standing needs a hand on the armrest that didn't used to be there. Some people notice it mowing the yard on a Saturday, others notice it after a full shift on their feet.
When it starts running down the leg, the pattern usually changes too. Sitting through a long drive gets harder before standing does, or the opposite happens and it's the walk across the parking lot that brings it on. Either way, it's the kind of thing you learn to work around rather than something that just goes away on its own.
An adjustment table in a treatment room at Mahle Chiropractic, with a terracotta wall and a window behind it.
Two ways to be adjusted, decided in the room
Mahle Chiropractic offers two ways to be adjusted, and which one you get is a conversation between you and whichever of the three doctors is seeing you that day, not a fixed menu. Manual adjusting is a small force delivered by hand at the exact angle of the joint, meant to improve the motion the joint has lost. It's the hands-on version most people picture.
Instrument style adjusting works differently. It uses speed rather than force, a gentle vibration or tapping that puts motion into the joint. Sigma Instruments reads how tight or resistant the joint is first, so the doctor knows exactly where to aim, and the computer compares how the joint moves before and after. Which route you get depends on the joint itself, how comfortable you are with a manual adjustment, and your age.
Chapter 03
Mechanical axial traction, built specifically for this
Of everything offered here, mechanical axial traction is the one therapy built specifically for the low back. In the practice's own words, it's designed to stretch and gap the joints of the low back, using forces in flexion and distracting the joints above and below the tight areas. It's a table based therapy, not a manual stretch.
That stretching and distracting is meant to reduce muscle spasm, and the practice states it can also help reduce disc herniation. Ultrasound, electric stimulation and cupping are also available at the same visit for tightness, spasm and circulation, but traction is the therapy that's actually built for what's happening in a low back and leg.
Same day, on Decker Dr
Mahle Chiropractic has three doctors, Dr. Mitchell Mahle, Dr. Kelsey Bowser and Dr. Christopher Argiro, who between them have all played sports and worked through injuries of their own. The practice has been on Decker Dr in New Castle since 2000, and same day appointments are usually available if a low back flares up and you don't want to wait.
Call (724) 656-9050 and describe what you're feeling. Spanish speaking representatives are available, and the practice carries an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. In-season student athletes get a flat $30 rate covering adjustment and therapy, with a parent or guardian along for the first visit, and veterans can ask in the office about how the practice gives back.
Mahle Chiropractic — Accredited with an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. Call (724) 656-9050.