Doctors like your Williamson chiropractor oftentimes prescribes exercise for back pain and neck pain alleviation. The question is, will exercising help your pain? For sure! Has there been research done to back up these claims? Conclusively! Apple Country Chiropractic understands that the neighboring muscles and fascia are quite vital when it comes to managing and relieving back and neck pain. A portion of the Williamson chiropractic care plan at Apple Country Chiropractic is normally exercise for the physical body. But what about the mental part of back and neck pain? There's a good exercise for your brain that can help with your controlling your body: meditation.

Meditation is in the news. You've probably heard about meditation. It’s likely a recognition that the mind plays an important role in people’s daily experience of life. For some Williamson folks, meditation may be “out there,” but for others meditation may be the thing to try that will offer relieving help.

Now, patients who suffer with a chronic pain condition - one that has been with them for years be that neck pain or back pain or leg pain or whatever - are used to their mind’s attention to pain. Might meditation be a way for them to change their focus, adjust their attention? It may be. Meditation may be for some Apple Country Chiropractic’s Williamson neck pain patients a way to contain and manage the pain.

Researchers just published findings that meditation may be a new approach to reducing chronic neck pain. Apple Country Chiropractic strives to share new and effective approaches to pain reduction and management for our Williamson patients.  Now, these researchers studied chronic neck pain patients who had experienced neck pain for an average of 11 years.  These neck pain patients reported pain over 40 out of 100 on the pain scale. The researchers randomized these chronic neck pain patients to one of two groups for 8 weeks: meditation or home exercise.  Apple Country Chiropractic found the outcomes encouraging: meditation “significantly reduced pain” and decreased the bothersomeness of the neck pain more than home exercise. Bottomline: meditation seemed to have helped these chronic neck pain sufferers with pain reduction and pain coping. (1) Apple Country Chiropractic sees nothing wrong with either of these outcomes!

So try to exercise your mind with meditation to reduce back and neck pain. It can be done at home alone or with others in a class or via an online directed meditation. Whatever format you are comfortable with, meditation may be an effective addition to your Williamson chiropractic care plan of spinal manipulation with Cox Technic and exercise. Contact Apple Country Chiropractic today.