Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they have to come for chiropractic care at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. Ultimately, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the West Des Moines chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients decide for themselves. And when there is no pain, it makes sense to stop care. However, there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the timespan of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It’s like a bruise on an apple. It won’t simply go away. The bruise is now a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a West Des Moines chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients ask for maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of West Des Moines back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is the West Des Moines chiropractic care partner to see!
West Des Moines CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain
A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with variable low, moderate and high intensity exercise throughout a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By making better pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Sadly, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% experienced a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% were prescribed at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is here to do this with you!
Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they discuss the conservative approach to managing West Des Moines back pain.
CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa
Schedule your next West Des Moines chiropractic appointment today with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is your spine care and back pain management partner!