Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must 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 gone, they are gone. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there’s 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 the things you want to do, continuing chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care decreased the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the timespan of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It won’t just go away. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is definitely refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a Fort Wayne chiropractic treatment plan designed 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 Fort Wayne back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid waiting for the pain and having to begin again. Whichever patient type you are, Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is the Fort Wayne chiropractic care partner to see!
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 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! Sadly, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 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 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.
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Arrange your next Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment now 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!