At Elite Spine & Health Center in Houston (Westchase) and Spring (Champion Forest), we help patients ease nerve irritation by identifying where the nerve is stressed and what movements increase tension.
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Suffering from Pinched Nerve?
A pinched nerve can cause significant pain in your neck or back, and it may also send sharp, shooting pain down your arm or leg. At Elite Spine and Health Center, experienced chiropractor Billy Cheong and his team offer highly effective, evidence-based treatments for pinched nerves at their Houston and Spring, Texas offices. Book your appointment online or call the office nearest you today.
Why Nerve Pain Happens?
Pinched nerves occur when something irritates or compresses a nerve root. This may come from a disc, joint, muscle, or movement pattern.
Common symptoms include:
- Sharp or electric pain shooting into the arm or leg
- Tingling or numbness in fingers or toes
- Burning sensations
- Pain that increases with neck or back movement
- Weak grip strength or leg weakness
- Pain that worsens with sitting or bending
- Difficulty turning your neck
- Relief when changing positions
- Pain that follows a line down the arm or leg
These patterns help identify the specific nerve involved.
Book your evaluation and get clarity.
What Causes a Pinched Nerve?
Pinched nerves develop when pressure is applied to a nerve by surrounding structures. Typical drivers include:
- Herniated or bulging discs pressing on nerve roots
- Bone spurs or degenerative arthritis narrowing nerve pathways
- Muscle or tendon tightness, inflammation or repetitive motion compressing nerves in joints such as the wrist or elbow
- Poor posture, sustained static positions or repetitive load that increase nerve pressure
When to get evaluated?
A nerve evaluation helps when you experience:
- Pain shooting into your arm or leg
- Tingling or numbness in hands, fingers, feet, or toes
- Neck or back pain that spreads
- Weakness in the arm or leg
- Pain that worsens with sitting, bending, or lifting
- Pain that improves when changing positions
- Unresolved pain after an injury
These patterns often indicate nerve involvement and should be addressed early.
Pinched nerve symptoms may involve spinal compression, muscular tension, inflammation, or movement dysfunction. At Elite Spine & Health Center, treatment plans may incorporate Chiropractic Adjustment, Myofascial Release, Spinal Decompression, and Class IV laser therapy depending on the patient’s symptoms and mobility limitations.
How we evaluate pinched nerves at Elite Spine
Your first visit includes:
- A detailed history of your pain, numbness or tingling and work or sport habits
- Physical exam including nerve-root tension tests, strength and reflex checks and posture and motion assessment
- Identification of where the nerve is compressed such as the spine exit, joint tunnel or muscle or tendon entrapment
- When needed, coordination of imaging such as X-ray or MRI or electro-diagnoses such as EMG or NCS to confirm nerve involvement
We then build a plan around your findings, lifestyle and goals.
Non-surgical treatment options in Houston & Spring
Your plan may include:
- Chiropractic adjustments to correct spinal or joint alignment and relieve nerve pressure
- Myofascial release, soft-tissue work and Graston Technique for tight muscles or tendons around the nerve
- Dry needling for trigger points that increase nerve tension or referral pain
- Class IV Laser therapy for pain control and tissue healing around nerve entrapment sites
- Radial Pulse Wave (Shockwave) therapy for chronic tendon or soft-tissue issues near nerve tunnels
- Therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation including posture correction, nerve glides or mobilisation, strength and movement patterns
- Activity coaching covering posture, ergonomics, sitting or standing breaks and load management
We monitor progress each visit and adjust the plan as your symptoms improve.
What you can do at home
What you do outside the clinic matters. Try:
- Avoid keeping one position too long and take movement breaks frequently
- Use correct posture and avoid slouching, forward head, rounded shoulders or crossed legs
- Follow your home exercise or nerve-glide program prescribed by our team
- Use ice or heat for flare-ups as advised
- Track your triggers such as positions or movements that worsen symptoms so we can adjust your plan
When a pinched nerve needs urgent attention
While many pinched-nerve cases respond to conservative care, you should seek immediate medical evaluation if you notice:
- Progressive weakness in a limb or inability to move it
- Bowel or bladder changes which are rare but serious with spinal nerve compression
- Sudden severe pain after trauma or signs of infection such as fever or redness around a joint
If you see any of these signs, get medical clearance first, then we’ll work with your team on the non-surgical plan.
A pinched nerve gets its name from being trapped by swollen or displaced tissues or bones around it. This pressure can squeeze a nerve so much that it causes serious pain and disrupts normal nerve function.
Although you can develop pinched nerves in many areas, they usually occur in the spine, particularly in the neck or lower back.
A pinched nerve doesn’t work as it usually does, so it can trigger a few different issues, such as:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Shooting pain
- Numbness
- Tingling
- Muscle weakness in an arm or leg
Symptoms can happen anywhere along the affected nerve. For example, a pinched nerve in the lumbar (lower) spine can cause severe pain in your lower back as well as radiating pain along the path of the nerve.
It’s very common to experience back pain that moves down into your hip, buttock, and leg on one side of your body. Similarly, a pinched nerve in your neck can cause shooting pain that moves into your shoulder and arm.
There are several possible causes of pinched nerves, including:
- Sports injuries
- Auto accidents
- Years of poor posture
- Repetitive motions at work, such as typing
- Repetitive motions during recreational activities
- Swelling from rheumatoid arthritis
- Difficulty maintaining a healthy weight
Many of the causes of pinched nerves are controllable, so after you complete treatment, it’s important to take steps to prevent a recurrence.
Pinched nerve treatment at Elite Spine and Health Center emphasizes fast pain relief along with correcting the underlying issue that causes your pain. Some of the many possible treatments include:
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Graston® Technique manual therapy
- Dry needling
- Heat therapy
- Cupping therapy
- Myofascial release
- Kinesio Taping® with RockTape®
- E-stim
- Therapeutic ultrasound
- Intersegmental traction
- Regenerative medicine injections
- Custom orthotics
In addition to the in-office treatments, Elite Spine and Health Center offers top-rated products you can use at home. Biofreeze® is a popular option for home pain relief because the gels, roll-ons, patches, and creams instantly cool and ease the pain.
Additionally, TriggerPoint® foam rollers can help you manage pain at home. Supplements from Designs for Health® and Charlotte’s Web™ CBD products are also available in the office.
Elite Spine and Health Center offers cutting-edge nonsurgical care for pinched nerves, so call the office or click on the online scheduler for pain relief today.
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Houston – Westchase: 2901 Wilcrest Dr, Suite 140, Houston, TX 77042 • Call: (832) 925‑6004
Spring – Champion Forest: 18425 Champion Forest Dr, Suite 200, Spring, TX 77379 • Call: (346) 808‑8338
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