Healthy News May 2020

Continued Williamson chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY VISIT YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to come for chiropractic care at Apple Country Chiropractic. Ultimately, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Williamson chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is 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 what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of painful day in acute episodes and improved the length of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often 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 welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a Williamson 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 Williamson back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Apple Country Chiropractic is the Williamson chiropractic care partner to see!

Williamson exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it’s not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Williamson 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 improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Unfortunately, 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 just 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% were prescribed 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 worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Apple Country Chiropractic is here 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 managing Williamson back pain.

CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic

Arrange your next Williamson chiropractic appointment now with Apple Country Chiropractic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Apple Country Chiropractic is your spine care and back pain management partner!