Role of Heat and Electrical Stimulation in Concord, NC Back Pain Treatment
What is more comforting – hot or cold? Bet you said ‘hot’! Pure Chiropractic understands. Heat is comfortable and comforting to many Concord, NC back pain sufferers. Cold is great therapy and recommended in early treatment phases, but heat plays a role in healing. When paired - heat with electrical stimulation - pain can’t help but relent. Heat and electrical stimulation calm and soothe pain. Pure Chiropractic recommends that Concord, NC back pain and neck pain patients use heat, ice and electrical stimulation as appropriate for pain relief.
BENEFIT OF HEAT FOR PAIN RELIEF
Heat reduces the perception of pain for many. Heat and cold lead the list of options that low back pain patients believe decreased their pain most followed by medication, rest, exercise, speaking with a health professional, stretching, not doing aggravating activities, and psychological changes. (1) Doctors seek ways to elicit “offset analgesia,” a disproportionately large decrease in pain due to a small decrease in stimulation intensity. Heat is a familiar and documented manner to do this. Electrical stimulation is another. Perceived or actual, the pain reduction is positive for a back pain sufferer. (2) If something reduces pain for a Concord, NC back pain patient, Pure Chiropractic will consider using it.
BENEFIT OF HEAT AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF
Heat feels good. Electrical stimulation feels good. Back pain and neck pain patients seek feeling “good” when they don’t. For nonspecific low back pain sufferers, it’s a significant cause of disability, larger than any other health condition globally. Doctors and researchers are always on the lookout for a better way control it. One group of researchers theorized that electrical muscle stimulation and heat would provide better pain relief and enhance patients’ subjective view of pain. And their experimental trial proved them correct! They discovered a statistically significant reduction in pain after 18 treatments. The relief was even held at a 12 week follow up. Patients’ mood as well as muscle strength and endurance also improved. (3) Pure Chiropractic directs Concord, NC back pain and neck pain sufferers to pain relief with all sorts of modalities. Whatever it takes! The heat and stimulation combination boost each other’s benefit.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Homer on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. For some conditions like spasmodic torticollis, heat can be particularly comforting and pain relieving. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integrates heat, too, in in-office chiropractic care and at- home care.
Schedule your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today! Pure Chiropractic is all about nonsurgical and nonpharmacological Concord, NC pain relief. If heat is soothing and relieving to a Concord, NC back pain sufferer, Pure Chiropractic is ready to try it!
