Williamson Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain
Smoking. We know it’s bad. Smoking is bad. The body does not like it. Your spine hates it! Apple Country Chiropractic loves your spine and offers Williamson chiropractic care for your spine. You like your spine or at least require it! Be good to your spine and keep it healthy! Let Apple Country Chiropractic care for your spine when it needs some special attention to re-discover its healthy state. The first step toward health for a Williamson smoker suffering with back pain may require a chiropractic treatment plan that incorporates a plan to quit smoking.
WHO SMOKES?
Researchers are curious about issues linked to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who went through back surgery, they discovered that 18% were smokers. The researchers observed that compared to the non-smokers, the smokers were younger, male, nondiabetic, and nonobese. These patients who suffer with coronary artery disease were more liable to be smokers. Smokers who had lumbar spine back surgery came to their healthcare provider more with leg pain than back pain and disability. Their employment, insurance/uninsured, and education status were also linked to smoking status. Fascinatingly though, smoking status did not affect the disability status one year after back surgery. (1) Modifying such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Apple Country Chiropractic would encourage a Williamson smoker dealing with Williamson back pain to stop smoking.
SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY
The body knows what’s good for it…and what’s not. Smoking is not. Examining 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is most strongly associated with spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain ensued. Active smoking is linked to pain in every part of the body. The spine and head take the force of the painful influence though. If a smoker doesn’t like pain, you’ll want to think about stop smoking! (2) Apple Country Chiropractic is with you to back your effort to quit smoking when you’re ready.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Silke Laub of chiropractic’s contribution to palliative care of a patient with cancer who has neuropathic pain due to chemotherapy. Dr. Michael Johnson of The Back Doctors Podcast highlighted the supportive side of chiropractic care and Cox® Technic for patients with spine related pain.
Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic visit with Apple Country Chiropractic. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is very bothersome to the spine. Being the Williamson back pain specialist, your Williamson chiropractor is here to ease back pain and support any efforts you decide to try to reduce your back pain.
