July 2024 Healthy News from Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain sends many sufferers to their doctors for help. Chronic back pain’s effect on the sufferer and his/her “default mode network” of living reflects the years lived with pain: the longer the pain period, the more influence the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not shocking, but it’s now described in the medical literature and will likely be analyzed more. It’s also known that lumbar spinal stenosis patients vary in their symptom severity and improvement track from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is really an individual journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation tops clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) As a matter of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care choices lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a top recommendation in many treatment recommendation lists by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. (4) Using chiropractic care and such approaches as mindfulness - which has been shown to improve pain-related functions - may be quite beneficial for you. (5)
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel and his chronic back pain patient on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about the use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to manage chronic back pain and return some joy to life.
West Des Moines CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all need a boost on occasion. The past few years of stress are catching up with us. Whether you’re tired or healing, peppermint may put some pep into your system. A recent study shared that inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery lowered patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study found that peppermint oil inhalation lowered cardiac surgery patients’ post-op nausea. (7) Adding peppermint oil to a footbath for adolescents with primary headache disorder showed that both the control and participant groups had a significant decrease in headache pain and reduction in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants favored and recommended this! (8) Craving some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be a helper!
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