Layden Chiropractic Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the key factor in aging well and enjoying life to its fullest. Layden Chiropractic is grateful to work with Plainville chiropractic patients to enhance their chances of aging well and enjoying the best quality of life possible. Plainville back pain patients understand that knowing what factors might negatively impact 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 negatively impact quality of life. These conditions often happen in mid-life and older life, rendering life not very enjoyable. Researchers found factors that seem to reduce the odds of suffering with these conditions. 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 all of these 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 issues in motor control functions like balance, attempts to strengthen these particularly are important to attempt to turn around such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is often a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Plainville back pain patients. Layden Chiropractic 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 get the most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the choice option for every Plainville back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t always produce fully 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 supposedly experienced 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 Layden Chiropractic is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to achieve the desired pain reduction outcome.
Plainville CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently looking into the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance improvement 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 reason for disability in the military. Seeing as how military personnel are people like us all, this study’s results 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 – enhanced short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Layden Chiropractic gathers these positive studies to share with our Plainville 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 describes 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 Plainville chiropractic visit. Together, you and Layden Chiropractic will set a course to ensure your quality of life in middle and older age is as enjoyable as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
