April 2026 Healthy News from Executive Chiropractic of Iowa: The Winning Combination: Chiropractic Care and Mind-Body Exercise for Pain, Sleep, and Life Wellness
THE CHIROPRACTIC POTENTIAL TO CHANGE LIVES — NOT JUST SPINES
What if your chiropractic care is doing much more than relieving your back pain — what if it is also helping you sleep better, feel less exhausted, and get back to the activities that make your life what you want it to be? Compelling new research on active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain suggests that is exactly what is occurring. In two studies, Shannon and colleagues looked at not just whether chiropractic care was helpful — but how and why it helped. The first, published in BMJ Open, found that chiropractic care enriched a wide range of whole-person outcomes — including sleep quality, fatigue, and physical functioning — and that these improvements were directly linked to decreases in how much back pain was hampering daily life. (1) The second, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, followed patients for a full year and confirmed that these wide-reaching benefits were real, lasting, and still measurable at both three months and one year later. (2) The soldiers and service members in these studies faced intense physical demands and chronic stress — but their battles with back pain, sleepless nights, and bone-deep exhaustion will sound achingly familiar to many of us. If you have been wondering whether chiropractic care is worth a try, or whether it can help with more than just the pain itself, the answer coming out from this research is a resounding yes — your back, your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life may all have something to gain….and your chiropractor here at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is ready to help!
West Des Moines CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: A Simple Habit That Could Help You Sleep Better Tonight
As you can see, better sleep is already one of the benefits your chiropractic care is working toward — and there are easy, research-backed steps you can take between visits to keep that momentum going. One comes from a recent study in Frontiers in Public Health that found how mind-body exercises — yoga, tai chi, or qigong — significantly boosted sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults by lowering anxiety and improving emotional regulation. (3) Gentle mindful movement calms the mental noise that keeps us staring at the ceiling. Try inserting just 15 to 20 minutes of slow, mindful movement to your evening routine and let it work alongside your chiropractic care here at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. Please chat with us at your next appointment about how this may work for you. Sleep well!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris DeVeau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relieving treatment protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the return of better sleep for a patient with [[non-stop]51]unrelenting arm pain who wasn’t sleeping much at all.
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