Healthy News May 2020

Continued Juneau chiropractic care helps keep back pain away.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to visit for chiropractic care at Aurora Chiropractic Center. Ultimately, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Juneau chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it makes sense to stop care. Only there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the length of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not simply go away. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a Juneau chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of Juneau back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Aurora Chiropractic Center is the Juneau chiropractic care partner to see!

Juneau exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it is not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Juneau CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain

A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with variable low, moderate and high intensity exercise throughout a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By bettering pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Unfortunately, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and just 14.6% experienced a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% got at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care incorporating spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Aurora Chiropractic Center is ready to do this with you!

Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to managing Juneau back pain.

CONTACT Aurora Chiropractic Center

Schedule your next Juneau chiropractic appointment now with Aurora Chiropractic Center for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Aurora Chiropractic Center is your spine care and back pain management partner!