Oxford Back Pain Care and Exercise Guidelines
Guidelines. There are guidelines for everything! This post discusses some of the newer guidelines for interprofessional teamwork between chiropractors and other healthcare providers to enhance the healing of Oxford back pain and neck pain sufferers. Exercises are a core part of back pain prevention as well as management that all providers encourage and all providers are concerned are not always executed. Chiropractors like your own at Satterwhite Chiropractic are health promoters and work to do that in the kindest, most supportive way! Let’s work together to get you better.
GUIDELINES FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Everything in healthcare is about quality. Providers and patients desire the highest quality care possible in delivering care and receiving care. Interprofessional collaboration is on the top of the list when researchers assess systems for the care of back pain like proper use of screening and preventive services. (1) Researchers have also put together 70 quality markers for chiropractic delivery that are standardized and evidence-based that take into consideration patient concerns and enhanced clinical outcomes. (2) Physical activity surely is a component of a quality chiropractic healthcare plan for Oxford pain relief.
BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR BACK PAIN AND NECK PAIN
In a recent survey, chiropractors said that the biggest concern they had in treating back pain patients was patient follow through (exercises, appointments, at-home recommendations, etc.). (3) In another survey, 90% of chiropractors stated that they had a positive opinion about healthier patient lifestyles. These chiropractors also shared that they were actively engaged in promoting physical activity, recommending exercises to patients for their particular issue, asking how the exercises are going, and advising patients in the proper manner to do exercises as well as value of doing exercises. (4) One way that patients seem to follow through more positively and be more willing to do physical activity is using a mobile application. Apps that are build built around reported pain, pain intensity, and app features like audio explanation and animation of each exercise are well received. (5) Doing the right exercises in the right way is the most helpful.
ADD IN SOME DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING!
Core stabilization exercises are commonly recommended to back pain patients. One new study that incorporated diaphragmatic breathing exercises recorded many advantages for chronic low back pain patients: enhanced muscle activity, chest expansion, quality of sleep, improved disability and physical activity and pain scores, less fear avoidance, and increased physical activity, among others. (6) As a part of your healthcare team, your chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic feels a responsibility to promote physical activity so that you can manage your own health a bit more. Our younger Oxford back pain and neck pain sufferers get positive results. Our older adults who deal with aches and pains and/or back pain and/or neck pain get positive results, too!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Tony Barton on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the effectiveness of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management in treating chronic low back pain.
Make your Oxford chiropractic appointment soon. Don’t let guidelines worry you when it comes to managing your back pain or neck pain. Satterwhite Chiropractic follows the recent guideline developments and implements the ones that seem most appropriate for your pain relief.
