Apple Country Chiropractic Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the important factor in aging well and enjoying life to its fullest. Apple Country Chiropractic is privileged to work with Williamson chiropractic patients to increase their odds of aging well and relishing the best quality of life possible. Williamson back pain patients understand that knowing what factors might negatively affect their quality of life and their options to diminish the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain lower quality of life. These conditions often happen in mid-life and older life, rendering life not very enjoyable. Researchers reported on factors that seem to decrease the odds of getting these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Good spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No issue with locomotion syndrome – difficulty moving from one position to another, one place to another. Good body balance. With all of these good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are notoriously important issues in motor control functions like balance, efforts to strengthen these specifically are important to try to reverse such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is often a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Williamson back pain patients. Apple Country Chiropractic realizes that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to pick and shares what the researchers say about such options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To benefit most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every Williamson back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always result in the desired outcome, especially for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that accompany it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who supposedly experienced little to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation as the first step. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Apple Country Chiropractic is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to get the sought after pain reduction outcome.
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently looking into the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance improvement in patients with low back pain, especially active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were associated with back pain. (4) Low back pain is a common reason for disability in the military. Given that military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s findings will be interesting! In another study, the addition of chiropractic care - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic procedures such as rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – improved short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic gathers these helpful studies to share with our Williamson back pain patients.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, improved his quality of life notwithstanding his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic visit. Together, you and Apple Country Chiropractic will set a course to make sure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other uncomfortable musculoskeletal diseases.
