Fort Wayne Back Pain Benefits from Good Sleep
The exercise topic of the month is…sleep?! Weird? Not at all! Sleep is just as important as exercise for pain management including management for back pain. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic helps many Fort Wayne pain sufferers manage their spine, neck, and back pain with chiropractic spinal manipulation, nutrition advice, and exercise direction. Sleep – adequate sleep – is added to that list for a good reason!
CONTROLLING BACK PAIN
Since low back pain often is a condition for life that comes and goes, a condition that is handled rather than cured, it is a positive thing that researchers are looking into just how a back pain sufferer can control the Fort Wayne back pain and how often it ‘rears its head.' Question any back pain sufferer and you’ll know that warding off a pain episode is an objective. But how? Researchers are looking at sleep, fatigue, emotion, and more to figure that out. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic introduces the term “flare” as it relates to a back pain episode.
BACK PAIN FLARE
A Fort Wayne low back pain flare is one that consists of heightened pain, paresthesia, or muscle tension, longer duration of symptoms, reduced functional (social, cognitive, physical), and negative emotions. Researchers found that back pain sufferers don’t consider their back pain to be a flare just because of increased pain, so healthcare professionals need to look beyond the pain to visualize what else is going on around the pain event, what psychosocial factors are involved. (1,2) The mind-body connection cannot always be overlooked! Nor can the time of day that pain is felt.
PAIN: MORNING NOON AND NIGHT
Patients dealing with low back pain for more than 3 months were studied to see what might trigger a flare up of their pain. Researchers discovered that poor sleep quality and morning pain were risks for such flare-ups. Increased pain risk rose with days of more afternoon and evening pain, fatigue, and fear of activity. Sleep is recommended to reduce the intensity, frequency, and risk of back pain flares. (3) Sleep quality also plays a part in how Fort Wayne back pain is experienced.
SLEEP QUALITY
A study of sleep quality in older adults in six middle-income countries uncovered that women had more sleep problems. Additionally, age, depression, low back pain, and poor self-rated health were also significantly associated with sleep problems. (4) Sleep, perceived stress, and anxiety contribute to chronic low back pain. Luckily, sleep quality is capable of mediating anxiety, making sleep a reasonable recommendation in the treatment plan. (5)
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ted Siciliano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease arm pain and numbness that was keeping him from sleeping.
Set up your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now. Let us talk sleep next time you’re in for a visit!
