“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the simplest and quickest way possible. This is not
always possible though. We all have to look at our pain and make
friends with it to some extent. We can see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation encourages
our Carrolltown back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It makes
a difference. It may perhaps even change your life for
the better. Many Carrolltown chiropractic patients have experienced this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study were not actively involved in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is filled 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 culprits that interfered with
patients’ participation in their own care, researchers made a special
plan to address these issues and increase
the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises,
lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One
study discovered that a variety of approaches to reduce
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one certain
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
tries to do whatever it takes to help our Carrolltown
back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain
patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It decreased
nonspecific chronic low back pain just as well as back-strengthening
exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations because
of back pain are a part of the problem, whole body
electrical stimulation helped fearful patients with their
strength and stabilization in good time, dropping
pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Ever heard the saying “There’s
an app for that!”? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is sure you have! Not
alarming in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in development to help you manage self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are now
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 plan to fill the app with tips and exercises that have
benefited others experiencing similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be customized for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on
what others with similar conditions found helpful and
relieving. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation looks forward to saying “There's an app for
that!" Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows that some of our Carrolltown back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
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 Carrolltown chiropractic appointment
soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Be ready to be engaged with your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be pleasantly
surprised that the pill or “something” was not available once you are feeling better regarding
back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active
part of the relief process.