Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must visit for chiropractic care at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. In the end, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Fernandina Beach chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it makes sense 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, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of painful day 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 usually cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not just disappear. The bruise becomes a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a Fernandina Beach chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients ask for maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of Fernandina Beach back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is the Fernandina Beach chiropractic care partner to see!
Fernandina Beach 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 helped 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 helpful. (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% experienced a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% got at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care including spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 discuss the conservative approach to dealing with Fernandina Beach back pain.
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Schedule your next Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment now with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is your spine care and back pain management partner!