Aurora Chiropractic Center Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the central factor in aging well and enjoying life to its fullest. Aurora Chiropractic Center is grateful to work with Juneau chiropractic patients to enhance their odds of aging well and experiencing the best quality of life possible. Juneau back pain patients appreciate knowing what factors might adversely affect their quality of life and their options to reduce the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain decrease quality of life. These conditions often happen in mid-life and older life, making life not very pleasant. Researchers reported on factors that seem to decrease the odds of suffering with these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Fine spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No issue with locomotion syndrome – trouble with switching positions. Good body balance. With such good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are known to be important issues in motor control functions like balance, attempts to strengthen these explicitly are important to try to turn around such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is manytimes a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Juneau back pain patients. Aurora Chiropractic Center knows that back pain sufferers have many options of care from which to pick and shares what the researchers say about such options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To get the most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every Juneau back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always result in the desired outcome, especially for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that accompany it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who supposedly had minimal to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain recommend non-surgical options like spinal manipulation as the first step. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Aurora Chiropractic Center incorporates Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to get the sought after pain reduction outcome.
Juneau CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently studying the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance improvement in patients with low back pain, particularly active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were associated with back pain. (4) Low back pain is a frequent reason for disability in the military. Given that military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s findings will be interesting! Another study that added chiropractic - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic approaches such as rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – improved short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Aurora Chiropractic Center collects these helpful studies to share with our Juneau back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, returning him to a satisfactory quality of life despite his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Juneau chiropractic visit. Together, you and Aurora Chiropractic Center will set a course to ensure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
