Healthy News May 2020

Continued Fort Wayne chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY VISIT YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS RELIEVED? TO KEEP THE RELIEF!

Patients often ask how long they have to visit for chiropractic care at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic. In the end, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Fort Wayne chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients decide for themselves. And when there is no pain, it seems natural to quit coming. Only there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the timespan of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It’s like a bruise on an apple. It won’t simply go away. The bruise is now a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Fort Wayne chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients request maintenance care after a few episodes of Fort Wayne back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is the Fort Wayne chiropractic care partner for you!

Fort Wayne exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it is not often prescribed as much as opioids. 

Fort Wayne 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 throughout the week helped 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 helpful. (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% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and just 14.6% had 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 worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is prepared 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 dealing with Fort Wayne back pain.

CONTACT Aaron Chiropractic Clinic

Arrange your next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is your spine care and back pain management partner!

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