Carrolltown Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management
“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 easiest and quickest way possible. This is not always possible though. We all need 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. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation urges our Carrolltown back pain patients and neck pain patients to take part in their back pain relief process. It can make a difference. It may well alter 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 highlighting the significance of patient-engagement with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients involved? 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 raise 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 reduce disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular 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 dropped 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 improved patients’ strength and stabilization in good time, decreasing pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There’s an app for that!”? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is certain 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 currently gathering data on the effectiveness of various interventions at various times for nonspecific low back pain. From this data collection, 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 upon others with similar conditions found helpful and relieving. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation looks forward to saying “There is an app for that!" Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows that some of our Carrolltown back pain patients will love this!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he outlines how back pain patients may help themselves to the best back pain relief possible.
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. 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 presented to you once you are feeling better in terms of back pain relief and mental contentment that you were an active part of the relief process.
