The Path of Sitka Back Pain Contained with Chiropractic Care
You have a bout of back pain – first, second, tenth. Do you wonder what that means going forward? Of course! The trajectory – researchers’ term for the path of back pain – of the Sitka back pain experience is unique to each, but there are factors that may help forecast that course. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka offers a few ideas on the effect of lifestyle and chiropractic care.
WHAT TO DO – Chiropractic
A new article’s findings make seeking chiropractic care logical to contain the path of back pain. Patients undergoing chiropractic care for their chronic (over 3 months) and acute (under a month) low back pain who reported “much better” or “better” at one week of care were 4 to 5 times more likely to report improvement at 1 and 3 months of care. Particularly, acute back pain patients who reported having more severe pain and disability in the beginning of care recovered quicker. Most patients with lumbar radicular leg pain bettered. Both acute and chronic back pain patients reported good outcomes. (1) A similar study of the interdisciplinary care (spine surgeons/chiropractors in a university hospital) of chronic back pain patients reported that almost half of the chronic low back pain patients cared with chiropractic conservative care reported clinically relevant improvement. (2) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka sees even greater outcomes with our specific form of chiropractic care, Cox® Technic!
WHAT TO DO – More Chiropractic
A question arises: why halt chiropractic care with pain relief? A study demonstrated that low back pain patients who experienced chiropractic maintenance care – chiropractic treatments on a regular basis unrelated to whether they had symptoms – had fewer days of low back pain that limited their activities of daily living compared with getting treatment only when a new low back pain episode arose. (3) More Sitka chiropractic care on a regular basis seems beneficial.
WHAT TO DO – More Activity
More is not always better, but some types of more are better, like chiropractic and activity. A low back pain patient with a lifetime history of back pain may want to consider engaging in more moderate to vigorous physical activity since it was shown to reduce the odds of developing severe low back pain over the next year. (4) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows none of us back pain sufferers enjoys hearing that, but it is the finding of one study. More intense exercise was shown beneficial. Understand too that a sedentary lifestyle – work and/or pleasure time – moderately raises the odds of low back pain. (5) There is a middle ground! Let us at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka find that with you, the spot that prevents back pain and allows you to be as active as you want to be.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the at-times great number of options for back pain relief including The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
Make your Sitka chiropractic appointment today to control your back pain’s trajectory, to limit the impact of back pain on your life forward.