Fortune tellers read your life in the lines on your palms, cardiologists study the lines of your EKG, but chiropractors understand your most important lifeline…the spinal cord and its protective covering, the spine. Over the last decade Dr. Scott Payne, his wife Dr. Gina Zummo-Payne, and Dr. Kevin Daude have spent their lives finding the best ways to protect your wellness!

Are you taking good care of your lifeline? If not…prepare for more than back pain! Damage to your spine could lead to neck pain,stabbing sciatic leg pain, weakness, and tingling or numbness in your hands or arms. Luckily, there’s hope! Local patient Mary Carol says, “I’ve been to a lot of specialists, but no one matched Dr. Payne and Dr. Daude’s appreciation for education and the seriousness with which they take their profession. After my car was struck by a commercial truck, getting out of bed in the morning was excruciating. I couldn’t play racquetball, and nothing stopped the pain…not two years of muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatory medications or cortisone injections. Finally a back specialist did an MRI that revealed a tear in a spinal disc. He recommended continuing with pain medication, but I didn’t want to live that way!”

“I brought my MRI to Dr. Payne at Parkway Family Chiropractic. He studied it and explained my injured back wasn’t getting blood flow to relieve the inflammation for proper healing, but I’d be a good candidate for decompression. I started on a weekly decompression program of twenty-five minutes per session. Two months into the program my pain was gone! When I started, I rated my pain at 8.5 on a scale of 1-10 and by the end it was at 1.5…really minimal! Over the last year and a half, all I’ve done is a maintenance treatment once every four-six months… no medication and no pain! Pain changes your personality, your outlook, the way you spend your time…everything about your life. Decompression changed everything! I’m back to playing racquetball twice a week and feeling like myself again!”

Dr. Payne says, “We love helping Mary and many others just like her.” Why does this decompression succeed even when other therapies fail? Dr. Payne explains, “Computer-guided, targeted disc therapy lifts pressure from the injured region, allowing blood, oxygen and nutrients to flow through the disc for healing. Treatment options that target pain––like surgery, injections and medications––can be warranted, but as stand-alone treatments there’s no hope they’ll prevent problems from recurring.”

“For lasting relief from back pain, we address all angles of the injured region––reducing the compressive force from the injured disc, restoring the spinal alignment, corrective strengthening and stabilizing exercises. Experience matters! We’ve spent the last ten years customizing programs for the most minor localized low back pain to extreme cases of torn discs and Sciatic nerve pain. Treatment options can be confusing, so we’re here to help you make educated choices. As Chiropractors, our goal is always treat the patient, not the symptom!

Does life flow freely through your spine or are you living a life shadowed by pain? Call Parkway Family Chiropractic for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation to review your history, x-rays or MRI’s. Together these doctors will work to restore health to the most important line in your life…your spine.