The Path of Juneau Back Pain Contained with Chiropractic Care
You have a bout of back pain – first, second, tenth. Do you wonder what that means going forward? Of course! The trajectory – researchers’ term for the path of back pain – of the Juneau back pain experience is individual to each, but there are issues that may help foretell that course. Aurora Chiropractic Center offers some input on the influence of lifestyle and chiropractic care.
WHAT TO DO – Chiropractic
A new article’s findings make seeking chiropractic care logical to influence the path of back pain. Patients undergoing chiropractic care for their chronic (more than 3 months) and acute (under 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 experiencing more severe pain and disability at the start of care recovered faster. Most patients with lumbar radicular leg pain bettered. Both chronic and acute back pain patients reported good outcomes. (1) A similar study of the interdisciplinary care (spine surgeons/chiropractors in a university hospital) of chronic back pain patients recorded that almost half of the chronic low back pain patients cared with chiropractic conservative care reported clinically relevant improvement. (2) Aurora Chiropractic Center sees even better 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 underwent 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 Juneau chiropractic care on a regular basis seems positive.
WHAT TO DO – More Activity
More is not always better, but some types of more are better, like chiropractic and activity. A low back pain sufferer with a lifetime history of back pain may want to consider participating in more moderate to vigorous physical activity since it was shown to reduce the odds of developing severe low back pain over the next year. (4) Aurora Chiropractic Center knows none of us back pain sufferers enjoys hearing that, but it is the finding of one study. More intense exercise was shown beneficial. Understand 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’s at Aurora Chiropractic Center uncover that with you, the spot that inhibits back pain and allows you to be as 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 great number of options for back pain relief including The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Schedule your Juneau chiropractic appointment soon to control your back pain’s trajectory, to limit the impact of back pain on your path forward.