Chiropractic Solutions 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. Chiropractic Solutions is privileged to work with San Jose chiropractic patients to boost their chances of aging well and enjoying the best quality of life possible. San Jose back pain patients appreciate knowing what factors might negatively affect their quality of life and their options to reduce 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 lower quality of life. These conditions often arise in mid-life and older life, making life not very enjoyable. Researchers reported on factors that seem to decrease the odds of acquiring these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Good spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No issue with locomotion syndrome – difficulty switching positions. Stable body balance. With all of these good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can enjoy a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are notoriously important factors in motor control functions like balance, attempts 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 San Jose back pain patients. Chiropractic Solutions knows that back pain sufferers have many options of care from which to pick 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 San Jose back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always result in the desired outcome, particularly 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 reportedly experienced little to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation first. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to achieve the desired pain reduction outcome.
San Jose CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are presently 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 frequent cause of disability in the military. Given that military personnel are people like us all, this study’s results will be interesting! In another study, the addition of chiropractic care - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic procedures 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) Chiropractic Solutions collects these helpful studies to share with our San Jose back pain patients.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
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 found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, improved his quality of life notwithstanding his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic visit. Together, you and Chiropractic Solutions will set a course to ensure your quality of life in middle and older age is as enjoyable as possible without the harmful influence of back pain and other uncomfortable musculoskeletal diseases.
