Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitations Healthy News for March 2017
In a new report, authors report on treatment outcomes of patients with implanted spinal stimulators for post-surgical continued back pain management. Patients with these devices have “failed back surgery syndrome” with continued back pain post surgically. After being treated with chiropractic spinal manipulation or mobilization, the patients in the study reported no adverse side effects. (1) The first rule of being a physician is “Do no harm”. This study shows how spinal manipulation and mobilization do just that. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers Carrolltown chiropractic care that does not harm. Schedule a visit today!
Chronic Neck Pain Patients Walk More Stiffly
Patients with chronic neck pain have a shorter stride and less thoracic spinal rotation when walking. Walking like this will affect the spine well into the future. (2) What to do? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation’s recommendation: Don’t let neck pain turn chronic. Get Carrolltown chiropractic care relief sooner than later, and walk less stiffly.
150 minutes of Exercise a Week – For All of Us Especially After Back Surgery
National guidelines recommend that we all get 150 minutes of exercise weekly. How many of us Carrolltown folks do? Just 52%! Sadly, even fewer - just 26% - post-back surgery patients do this. It’s shown that 150 minutes prevents more back surgery and helps post-surgical back pain patients going. These post-surgical patients also feel less back pain after surgery. (3) Physical exercise is so effective. Our Carrolltown chiropractic practice encourages a simple walk a day to all Carrolltown chiropractic patients.
Placebo and Pain Meds for Back and Leg Pain Similar
A meta-analysis, the highest form of research reporting, shares that NSAIDSdespite their being. one of the most frequently prescribed drugs for sciatic leg pain offer similar pain relief and overall improvement to placebo with a higher risk of adverse side-effects. (4) NSAIDs are reported as effective for spine pain in a different study, but the difference is not clinically significant between NSAIDs and placebo. It further says that there are no simple analgesics that give clinically important relief over placebo. (5) Well, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here to help with Carrolltown chiropractic non-drug pain-relieving care! Contact Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today for an appointment.
March may be the month of luck and green-leafed clovers, but luck may also be defined as being prepared for the opportunity/issue/problem before us. When it comes to back pain, neck pain, arm pain and leg pain, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is. Our Carrolltown chiropractic care practice is so glad to share these new advances and findings with our Carrolltown chiropractic friends and family!
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