July 2024 Healthy News from Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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 often has something to do the years lived with pain: the longer the pain stage the more impact the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not shocking, but it’s now published and will likely be studied more. It’s also understood that lumbar spinal stenosis patients differ in their symptom severity and improvement track from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is truly a unique journey, one your chiropractor goes on with you as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation tops clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) As a matter of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care options lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a top recommendation in many treatment recommendation lists 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 use 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.
Manchester CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all need a boost on occasion. The past few stressful years are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may put some energy into your system. A recent study described how inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery decreased patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study found that peppermint oil inhalation decreased 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 favored and recommended this! (8) Craving some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be a helper!
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