Minster Back Pain Benefits from Good Sleep
Exercise tip of the month: sleep. Unusual? Not at all! Sleep is just as valuable as exercise for pain management including management for back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center helps many Minster pain sufferers cope with their spine, neck, and back pain with chiropractic spinal manipulation, nutrition advice, and exercise direction. Sleep – adequate sleep – is added to that list for a good reason!
CONTROLLING BACK PAIN
Since low back pain many times is a condition for life that is intermittent, a condition that is managed rather than cured, it’s a positive thing that researchers are looking into just how a back pain sufferer can take charge of the Minster back pain and how often it ‘rears its head.' Question any back pain sufferer and you’ll know that keeping the pain away is an objective. But how? Researchers are studying sleep, fatigue, emotion, and more to find out. Minster Chiropractic Center introduces the term “flare” as it has to do with a back pain episode.
BACK PAIN FLARE
A Minster low back pain flare is one that consists of heightened pain, paresthesia, or muscle tension, increased duration of symptoms, reduced functional (social, cognitive, physical), and negative emotions. Researchers found that back pain sufferers do not consider their back pain to be a flare just because of increased pain, therefore healthcare professionals need to look beyond the pain to visualize what else is influencing the pain event, what psychosocial factors are involved. (1,2) The mind-body connection cannot always be ignored! Nor can the time of day that pain is felt.
PAIN: MORNING NOON AND NIGHT
Patients dealing with low back pain for more than 3 months were studied to see what might precipitate a flare up of their pain. Researchers discovered that poor sleep quality and morning pain were risks for such flare-ups. Increased pain risk rose with days of more afternoon and evening pain, fatigue, and fear of activity. Sleep is suggested to reduce the intensity, frequency, and risk of back pain flares. (3) The quality of sleep also plays a part in how Minster back pain is felt.
SLEEP QUALITY
A study of sleep quality in mature adults in six middle-income countries uncovered that women experienced more sleep problems. Further, age, depression, low back pain, and poor self-rated health were also significantly linked to sleep problems. (4) Sleep, perceived stress, and anxiety play a role in chronic low back pain. Luckily, sleep quality is able to mediate anxiety, making sleep a reasonable recommendation in the treatment plan. (5)
CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ted Siciliano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses his use of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease arm pain and numbness that was preventing him from sleeping.
Set up your Minster chiropractic appointment soon. Let us talk sleep next time you are in for a visit!
