Plainville Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management
“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Layden Chiropractic and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear all the time. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the simplest and fastest way possible. This is not always possible though. We all need to look at our pain and make friends with it to some extent. We have to see it for what it is. Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Layden Chiropractic encourages our Plainville back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It makes a difference. It may perhaps even alter your life for the better. Many Plainville chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Amazingly up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study weren’t actively engaged in their spine care treatment plan. Research is filled with papers emphasizing the significance of patient-engagement with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients involved? In researcher-ease, environmental context and resources, emotion, memory/attention/decision-making, and behavioural regulation did. Knowing that these things were the interfering culprits that interfered with patients’ participation in their own care, researchers made a special plan to deal with these issues and increase the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises, lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One study discovered that a variety of approaches to reduce disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Layden Chiropractic tries to do anything possible to help our Plainville back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It reduced nonspecific chronic low back pain just as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations due to back pain are a part of the problem, whole body electrical stimulation improved patients’ strength and stabilization in good time, decreasing pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Layden Chiropractic shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Ever heard the saying “There’s an app for that!”? Layden Chiropractic is certain you have! Not surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in development to help you keep track of self-management tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently gathering data on the effectiveness of various interventions at various times for nonspecific low back pain. From this data collection, researchers plan to fill the app with tips and exercises that have worked for others with similar issues. Each patient’s app will then be personalized for self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on what others with similar conditions found helpful and relieving. (4) Layden Chiropractic looks forward to saying “There's an app for that!" Layden Chiropractic knows that some of our Plainville back pain patients will love this!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain relief.
Schedule a Plainville chiropractic appointment soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Layden Chiropractic. Be ready to be engaged with your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will be so happy that the pill or “something” wasn’t offered once you are feeling better in terms of back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active part of the relief process.
