Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must come for chiropractic care at Old Mill Chiropractic. Ultimately, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the St Peters chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it makes sense to quit coming. Only there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of days with pain in acute episodes and increased the duration of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It won’t just go away. The bruise is now a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a St Peters chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients ask for maintenance care after a few episodes of St Peters back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Old Mill Chiropractic is the St Peters chiropractic care partner to see!
St Peters CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain
A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with variable low, moderate and high intensity exercise during the week benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By bettering pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% got at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care including spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Old Mill Chiropractic is here to do this with you!
Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to managing St Peters back pain.
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Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic appointment today with Old Mill Chiropractic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Old Mill Chiropractic is your spine care and back pain management partner!