Role of Heat and Electrical Stimulation in San Jose Back Pain Treatment
What is more comforting – heat or ice? Bet you said ‘heat’! Chiropractic Solutions understands. Heat is comfortable and comforting to many San Jose back pain sufferers. Cold is effective therapy and suggested in early treatment phases, but heat plays a part in healing. When combined - heat and electrical stimulation - pain cannot help but subside. Heat and electrical stimulation calm and ease pain. Chiropractic Solutions recommends that San Jose back pain and neck pain patients use heat, ice and electrical stimulation as proper for pain relief.
BENEFIT OF HEAT FOR PAIN RELIEF
Heat reduces the perception of pain for many. Heat and cold lead the listing 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 look for ways to produce “offset analgesia,” a disproportionally large decrease in pain as a result of a slight reduction in stimulation intensity. Heat is one familiar and documented manner to do this. Electrical stimulation is another. Perceived or actual, the pain reduction is positive for a back pain sufferer. (2) If something decreases pain for a San Jose back pain patient, Chiropractic Solutions 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 sufferers seek feeling “good” when they are in pain. For nonspecific low back pain sufferers, it’s 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 enhance patients’ subjective view of pain. And their experimental trial proved them 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) Chiropractic Solutions guides San Jose back pain and neck pain sufferers to pain relief with all types of modalities. Whatever it takes! The heat and stimulation combination enhance 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 integrates heat, too, in in-office chiropractic care and at- home care.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment today! Chiropractic Solutions offers nonsurgical and nonpharmacological San Jose pain relief. If heat is soothing and relieving to a San Jose back pain sufferer, Chiropractic Solutions is ready to try it!
