Healthy News May 2020

Continued San Jose chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS RELIEVED? TO KEEP THE RELIEF!

Patients often ask how long they must visit for chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions. In the end, their relief determines this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the San Jose chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it seems natural to quit coming. However, there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the length of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not simply disappear. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a San Jose chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of San Jose back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Chiropractic Solutions is the San Jose chiropractic care partner to see!

San Jose exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it is not often prescribed as much as opioids.

San Jose CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain

A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise throughout a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year prior to back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% were prescribed at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care incorporating spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Chiropractic Solutions is here to do this with you!

Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to dealing with San Jose back pain.

CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions

Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic appointment today with Chiropractic Solutions for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Chiropractic Solutions is your spine care and back pain management partner!