Role of Heat and Electrical Stimulation in Minster Back Pain Treatment
What is more comforting – hot or cold? Bet you said ‘hot’! Minster Chiropractic Center understands. Heat is comfortable and comforting to many Minster back pain sufferers. Cold is great therapy and suggested in initial treatment phases, but heat plays a role in healing. When combined - heat with electrical stimulation - pain can’t refuse. Heat and electrical stimulation calm and alleviate pain. Minster Chiropractic Center advises that Minster back pain and neck pain patients use heat, ice and electrical stimulation as appropriate for pain relief.
BENEFIT OF HEAT FOR PAIN RELIEF
Heat reduces the perception of pain for many. Heat and cold top the list of things that low back pain patients believe lessened their pain most followed by medication, rest, exercise, speaking with a health professional, stretching, not doing irritating activities, and psychological changes. (1) Doctors try to find ways to elicit “offset analgesia,” a disproportionally large decrease in pain due to a small reduction in stimulation intensity. Heat is a familiar and documented way to do this. Electrical stimulation is another. Perceived or actual, the pain reduction is positive for a back pain sufferer. (2) If something decreases pain for a Minster back pain patient, Minster Chiropractic Center will consider using it.
BENEFIT OF HEAT AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF
Heat feels good. Electrical stimulation feels good. Back pain and neck pain sufferers seek feeling “good” when they don’t. For nonspecific low back pain sufferers, it is a significant cause of disability, bigger than any other health condition around the world. Doctors and researchers are always looking for a way to better manage it. One group of researchers hypothesized that electrical muscle stimulation and heat would provide better pain relief and improve patients’ subjective view of pain. And their experimental trial proved them right! They found a statistically significant reduction in pain after 18 treatments. The relief was even recorded at a 12 week follow up. Patients’ mood in addition to muscle strength and endurance also got better. (3) Minster Chiropractic Center guides Minster back pain and neck pain sufferers to pain relief with all sorts of modalities. Whatever it takes! The heat and stimulation combination boost each other’s benefit.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Homer on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. For some conditions like spasmodic torticollis, heat can be especially comforting and pain relieving. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporates heat, too, in in-office chiropractic care and at- home care.
Schedule your Minster chiropractic appointment today! Minster Chiropractic Center offers nonsurgical and nonpharmacological Minster pain relief. If heat is soothing and relieving to a Minster back pain sufferer, Minster Chiropractic Center is prepared to try it!
