Healthy News April 2023 Choosing the Back Pain Care Option for You and Adding Turmeric for Anti-Inflammatory Help
“Supermarkets” are great for gathering food but not so much so for finding relief of St Peters back pain, grasping the basis of back pain, nor waking up each day and functioning with hope. A new back pain sufferer can get lost in this “supermarket” of healthcare options. Researchers came up with this comparison of back pain care options to goods on shelves in a supermarket as they witnessed this at their meetings where the latest in back pain care options were touted next to each other with each approach’s supporters imparting their procedures (some with solid, accurately presented research evidence, some without). (1) It is no wonder that back pain sufferers – who are not alone with a lifetime likelihood of low back pain for all of us being 85% (2) – are overwhelmed. That is where our teamwork is useful. You share your expectations. Old Mill Chiropractic will share the best evidence to create a treatment plan to help you recover. Researchers studied patient preferences and goals for non-surgical treatment of chronic low back pain and reported that these are important to patient outcomes. (3) YOUR goals of care are important: Do you want to walk more? Sleep better? Understand your pain better? YOUR preferences for care are important: Do you feel spinal manipulation is for you? Or supervised rehab? Or psychotherapy?? Supervised therapy? Talk to a therapist?]33] As your St Peters chiropractor, I want to know them. Those will direct your care and enhance your clinical outcomes. We know that conservative care for 4 to 6 weeks is recommended (in the absence of progressive neurological deficits and/or cauda equina syndrome) prior to imaging. (4) We also know that spinal manipulation is one of the top conservative advocated treatments. (5) When you are experiencing back pain, let us be your personal shopper, finding you the approach of chiropractic services to help you best!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes both The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the healthcare path for back pain relief that is often perplexing and non-congruent with current recommendations for the non-surgical, conservative care of back pain.
Turmeric (curcuma longa L.) is a plant well-recognized for its anti-inflammatory aspects due to its polyphenolic curcuminoids. In a scoping review of published papers, researchers determined that current evidence is great that suggests clinical benefit from supplementing turmeric for its anti-inflammatory benefits, particularly in inflammation-associated diseases like obesity-related metabolic disorders or musculoskeletal disorders (like back and neck pain). (6) Researchers always call for more research to definitively recommend dosages and formulations. In the meantime, let’s have a conversation about how turmeric’s addition to your nutrition plan may benefit your pain relief and healing.
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