July 2024 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain sends many sufferers to doctors’ offices for help. Chronic back pain’s impact on the sufferer and his/her “default mode network” of living often has something to do the years lived with pain: the longer the pain period, the more influence the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not surprising, but it is now published and will certainly be analyzed more. It’s also known that lumbar spinal stenosis patients vary in their symptom severity and improvement path from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is really an individual journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation is high on clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) In point of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care choices lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a top recommendation in many treatment recommendation records by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. (4) Using chiropractic care and such approaches as mindfulness - which has been shown to improve pain-related functions - may be quite beneficial for you. (5)
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel and his chronic back pain patient on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the utilization of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to manage chronic back pain and return some joy to life.
Minster CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all may be in need of a boost on occasion. The past few years of stress are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may put some energy into your system. A recent study described how inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery reduced patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study detailed how peppermint oil inhalation reduced cardiac surgery patients’ post-op nausea. (7) Adding peppermint oil to a footbath for adolescents with primary headache disorder showed that both the control and participant groups had a significant decrease in headache pain and decrease in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants favored and recommended this! (8) Time for some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be your friend!
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