“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Chiropractic Care and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear frequently. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the simplest and quickest way possible. This isn’t
always possible though. We all have to look at our pain and make
friends with it to some extent. We have to see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Chiropractic Care encourages
our West Palm Beach back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It makes
a difference. It may well alter your life for
the better. Many West Palm Beach chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study were not actively engaged in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with reports
emphasizing the importance of patient-involvement in treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients participating?
In researcher-ease, environmental context and resources, emotion, memory/attention/decision-making,
and behavioural regulation did. Knowing that these things were the
interfering offending factors that interfered with
patients’ participation in their own care, researchers created a special
plan to deal with these issues and improve
the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises,
lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One
study found that a mix of approaches to drop
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one certain
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Chiropractic Care
tries to do whatever it takes to help our West Palm Beach
back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain
patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It reduced
nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening
exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations due to back pain play a role, whole body
electrical stimulation improved patients’
strength and stabilization in a timely fashion, decreasing
pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Chiropractic Care
shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There’s
an app for that!”? Chiropractic Care is positive you have! Not
surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the
works to help you manage self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently
collecting data on the effectiveness of
various interventions at baseline, 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 9 months
for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data,
researchers will fill the app with tips and exercises that have
worked for others experiencing similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be tailored for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on
what others with similar conditions found helpful and
relieving. (4) Chiropractic Care looks forward to saying “There is an app for
that!" Chiropractic Care knows that some of our West Palm Beach back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how
back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a West Palm Beach chiropractic appointment
soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Chiropractic Care. Be ready to be involved in your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be so happy that the pill or “something” wasn’t offered once you are feeling better in terms of
back pain relief and mental contentment that you were an active
part of the relief process.