Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they have to come for chiropractic care at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. In the end, their relief determines this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Manahawkin chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it makes sense to stop care. However, there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things 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 dropped the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the length of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not typically cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It won’t simply go away. The bruise is now a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a Manahawkin chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after a few episodes of Manahawkin back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is the Manahawkin chiropractic care partner for you!
Manahawkin 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 benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year prior to back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% experienced 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 worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Manahawkin 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 discuss the conservative approach to managing Manahawkin back pain.
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Schedule your next Manahawkin chiropractic appointment now with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is your spine care and back pain management partner!