The Path of Minster Back Pain Contained with Chiropractic Care
You experience a bout of back pain – first, second, tenth. Are you curious about what that means going forward? Certainly, you are! The trajectory – researchers’ term for the course of back pain – of the Minster back pain experience is unique to each, but there are factors that may help foretell that course. Minster Chiropractic Center shares some input on the effect of lifestyle and chiropractic care.
WHAT TO DO – Chiropractic
A new article’s findings make seeking chiropractic care logical to impact the path of back pain. Patients undergoing chiropractic care for their chronic (over 3 months) and acute (less than a month) low back pain who reported “much better” or “better” at one week of care were 4 to 5 times more likely to report improvement at 1 and 3 months of care. More specifically, acute back pain patients who reported having more severe pain and disability in the beginning of care recovered more quickly. The majority of patients with lumbar radicular leg pain improved. Both acute and chronic back pain patients reported good outcomes. (1) Another study of the interdisciplinary care (spine surgeons/chiropractors in a university hospital) of chronic back pain patients documented that almost half of the chronic low back pain patients cared with chiropractic conservative care reported clinically relevant improvement. (2) Minster Chiropractic Center sees even greater outcomes with our particular form of chiropractic care, Cox® Technic!
WHAT TO DO – More Chiropractic
So why stop chiropractic care with pain relief? Researchers documented that low back pain patients who have chiropractic maintenance care – chiropractic treatments on a regular basis unrelated to whether they had symptoms – had fewer days of low back pain that limited their activities of daily living compared with getting treatment only when a new low back pain episode arose. (3) More Minster chiropractic care on a regular basis seems positive.
WHAT TO DO – More Activity
More is not always better, but some kinds of more are better, like chiropractic and activity. A low back pain patient with a lifetime history of back pain may want to consider engaging in more moderate to vigorous physical activity since it was shown to reduce the odds of extending severe low back pain over the next year. (4) Minster Chiropractic Center knows none of us back pain sufferers wants to hear that, but it is the finding of one study. More intense exercise was shown beneficial. Know too that a sedentary lifestyle – work and/or pleasure time – moderately raises the odds of low back pain. (5) There is a middle ground! Let us at Minster Chiropractic Center uncover that with you, the spot that inhibits back pain and keeps you active as you want to be.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the at-times overwhelming number of options for back pain relief including The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Minster chiropractic appointment soon to control your back pain’s trajectory, to limit the impact of back pain on your path forward.