Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That is the important factor in aging well and taking pleasure in life to its fullest. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is privileged to work with Carrolltown chiropractic patients to increase their odds of aging well and experiencing the best quality of life possible. Carrolltown back pain patients value knowing what factors might adversely affect their quality of life and their options to lessen the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain decrease quality of life. These conditions often arise in mid-life and older life, making life not very pleasant. Researchers found factors that seem to decrease the odds of acquiring these problems. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Good spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No issue with locomotion syndrome – difficulty moving from one position to another, one place to another. Stable body balance. With such good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are known to be key factors in motor control functions like balance, efforts to strengthen these particularly are important to try to reverse such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is often a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Carrolltown back pain patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation realizes that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to choose and shares what the researchers say about such options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To benefit most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every Carrolltown back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always result in the desired outcome, especially for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that accompany it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who supposedly had little to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation as the first step. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to achieve the sought after pain reduction outcome.
Carrolltown CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently looking into the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance better outcomes in patients with low back pain, particularly active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were related to back pain. (4) Low back pain is a common cause of disability in the military. Seeing as how military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s findings will be interesting! Another study that added chiropractic - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic approaches like rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – improved short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation collects these helpful studies to share with our Carrolltown back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details his care of a back pain patient who attained relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, returning him to a satisfactory quality of life despite his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic visit. Together, you and Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will set a course to make sure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the harmful influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
