July 2024 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain drives many sufferers to doctors’ offices for help. Chronic back pain’s effect on the sufferer and his/her “default mode network” of living reflects the years lived with pain: the longer the pain period, the more influence the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not surprising, but it’s now described in the medical literature and will certainly be studied more. It’s also understood that lumbar spinal stenosis patients differ in their symptom severity and improvement path from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is really a unique journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation is high on clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) As a matter of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care choices lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a leading recommendation in many treatment recommendation records by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. (4) Using chiropractic care and such approaches as mindfulness - which has been shown to improve pain-related functions - may be quite beneficial for you. (5)
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel and his chronic back pain patient on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the utilization of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to manage chronic back pain and allow you to enjoy your life a bit more.
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all may be in need of a boost every once in a while. The past few years of stress are catching up with us. Whether you’re tired or healing, peppermint may put some energy into your system. A recent study shared that inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery reduced patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study detailed how peppermint oil inhalation lowered cardiac surgery patients’ post-op nausea. (7) Adding peppermint oil to a footbath for adolescents with primary headache disorder showed that both the control and participant groups had a significant decrease in headache pain and reduction in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants liked and recommended this! (8) Craving some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be a helper!
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