Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must come for chiropractic care at Pure Chiropractic. Ultimately, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the Concord, NC chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there’s no pain, it seems normal to quit coming. Only there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things you want to do, continuing chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the length of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It won’t simply disappear. The bruise is now a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Concord, NC chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients seek maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of Concord, NC back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Pure Chiropractic is the Concord, NC chiropractic care partner for you!
Concord, NC 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 varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise during the week helped 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 encouraging 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% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% received at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Pure Chiropractic 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 discuss the conservative approach to dealing with Concord, NC back pain.
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Arrange your next Concord, NC chiropractic appointment today with Pure Chiropractic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Pure Chiropractic is your spine care and back pain management partner!