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What: Byers Chiropractic Center and Medi-Back program
Where: 4354 E. Ohio 73, Suite 130, Waynesville
Info: (513) 897-0997
WAYNESVILLE — Eighty percent of adults will experience lower back problems some time in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While a minority are forced to turn to surgery for relief, the majority see a masseuse or chiropractor, while others grin and bear it.
Three local pain management specialists are teaming together to present a unique method to attack muscle and joint pain on all fronts and get patients back to a pain-free life.
James Byers has expanded his chiropractic center with the assistance of Dr. James Baar and Jason Privett to incorporate Medi-Back, a multiple dimensional method of treating pain that can help patients avoid surgery and live more comfortably.
“I think of it as a one-stop shop for treating muscle and joint pain,” Byers said.
The two offices, shared by Byers, Baar and Privett, offer a variety of stations for the patients from massage tables to an array of workout machines where patients undergo light strength training to increasingly build their muscles.
Byers said a typical patient who enters the Medi-Back program would see Byers first where he would help the immediate pain through chiropractic treatment.
“First they would come to me to get the back calmed down. Jason and Steven would then help build the muscles back up,” Byers said.
The Medi-Back program was developed by Baar, who serves on the Warren County Board of Health, twenty years ago under the belief the most efficient way to treat pain was to strengthen the muscles of the affected area.
“My treatments came from sports medicine,” Baar said. “Athletes would receive aggressive strengthening exercises to heal their injuries and as a result they were getting better sooner. Why do you have to be an athlete to get better treatment?”
Baar and Byers met last year and realized they shared similar theories about pain treatment and decided to work together with the cooperative approach they now present to patients. Byers believes it is the only clinic of its kind in southwest Ohio.
“We’re not the cure-all but we can help a lot,” Baar said.
All three agree their goal is to stop the pain from becoming a recurring problem.
“The bottom line,” Byers said, “is to get people fixed.”
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