Healthy News May 2020

Continued Sitka chiropractic care helps keep back pain away.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to come for chiropractic care at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Ultimately, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the Sitka chiropractor. For others, when the pain is . The patients make the decision themselves. And when there’s no pain, it makes sense to stop care. Only there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing what you want to do, continuing chiropractic care on a regular basis (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care decreased the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved 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 just go away. The bruise is now a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Sitka 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 Sitka back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is the Sitka chiropractic care partner to see!

Sitka exercise benefits patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it’s not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Sitka 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 variable low, moderate and high intensity exercise throughout a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By making better pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Unfortunately, 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% experienced 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 incorporating spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is here 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 present the conservative approach to managing Sitka back pain.

CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka

Arrange your next Sitka chiropractic appointment now with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is your spine care and back pain management partner!