The amount of times I hear in the clinic;

“I’m having low back pain and it’s got that bad now that the tablets aren’t working anymore”

It’s often a difficult task for us to educate our patients that painkillers don’t fix your problem, they only mask your symptom.

What you need to do is get your problem fixed at the first sign of pain, because that’s your body telling you it’s damaging itself. Correcting the joint dysfunction at its cause is what your chiropractor is trained to do.

This article explains;

“Paracetamol has been widely recommended as being a safe medication, but what we are saying now is that paracetamol doesn’t bring any benefit for patients with back pain, and it brings only trivial benefits to those with osteoarthritis.”

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/04/01/4208298.htm