Role of Heat and Electrical Stimulation in Carrolltown Back Pain Treatment
What is more comforting – hot or cold? Bet you said ‘hot’! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation understands. Heat is comfortable and comforting to many Carrolltown back pain sufferers. Cold is effective therapy and recommended in early treatment phases, but heat plays a part in healing. When put together - heat and electrical stimulation - pain can’t help but subside. Heat and electrical stimulation calm and alleviate pain. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation advises that Carrolltown back pain and neck pain patients use heat, ice and electrical stimulation as proper for pain relief.
BENEFIT OF HEAT FOR PAIN RELIEF
Heat decreases the perception of pain for many. Heat and cold top the list of options that low back pain patients believe decreased their pain most followed by medication, rest, exercise, speaking with a health professional, stretching, not doing irritating activities, and psychological changes. (1) Doctors seek ways to elicit “offset analgesia,” a disproportionally large reduction in pain due to a small decrease in stimulation intensity. Heat is one familiar and documented manner to do this. Electrical stimulation is another. Perceived or actual, the pain reduction is good for a back pain sufferer. (2) If something reduces pain for a Carrolltown back pain patient, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will consider its use.
BENEFIT OF HEAT AND ELECTRICAL STIMULATION FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF
Heat feels good. Electrical stimulation feels good. Back pain and neck pain patients seek feeling “good” when they hurt. For nonspecific low back pain sufferers, it is a significant cause of disability, larger than any other health condition globally. Doctors and researchers are always on the lookout for a way to better manage it. One group of researchers hypothesized that electrical muscle stimulation and heat would produce better pain relief and improve patients’ subjective view of pain. And their experimental trial demonstrated that they were right! They discovered a statistically significant reduction in pain after 18 treatments. The relief was even recorded at a 12 week follow up. Patients’ mood as well as muscle strength and endurance also improved. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation guides Carrolltown back pain and neck pain sufferers to pain relief with all types of modalities. Whatever it takes! The heat and stimulation combination improve each other’s benefit.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Homer on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. For some conditions like spasmodic torticollis, heat can be especially comforting and pain relieving. The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporates heat, too, in in-office chiropractic care and at- home care.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers nonsurgical and nonpharmacological Carrolltown pain relief. If heat is comforting and relieving to a Carrolltown back pain sufferer, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is prepared to use it!
