Old Mill Chiropractic Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the important factor in aging well and taking pleasure in life to its fullest. Old Mill Chiropractic is grateful to work with St Peters chiropractic patients to increase their odds of aging well and experiencing the best quality of life possible. St Peters back pain patients understand that knowing what factors might adversely impact their quality of life and their options to reduce the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain negatively impact quality of life. These conditions often happen in mid-life and older life, rendering life not very pleasant. Researchers reported on factors that seem to reduce the odds of suffering with these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Good spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No trouble with locomotion syndrome – trouble with switching positions. Stable body balance. With all of these good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can enjoy a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are notoriously key issues in motor control functions like balance, efforts to strengthen these explicitly are important to try to turn around such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is manytimes a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for St Peters back pain patients. Old Mill Chiropractic knows that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to choose and shares what the researchers say about the options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To benefit most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every St Peters back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery does not always result in the desired outcome, especially for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that come with it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who reportedly had minimal to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation first. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Old Mill Chiropractic is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to get the desired pain reduction outcome.
St Peters CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently studying the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance improvement in patients with low back pain, particularly active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were related to back pain. (4) Low back pain is a familiar cause of disability in the military. Given that military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s results will be interesting! In another study, the addition of chiropractic care - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic procedures like rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – enhanced short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Old Mill Chiropractic collects these positive studies to share with our St Peters back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, improved his quality of life notwithstanding his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic visit. Together, you and Old Mill Chiropractic will set a course to make sure your quality of life in middle and older age is as enjoyable as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
