April 2026 Healthy News from Satterwhite Chiropractic: The Winning Combination: Chiropractic Care and Mind-Body Exercise for Pain, Sleep, and Life Wellness
THE CHIROPRACTIC POTENTIAL TO CHANGE LIVES — NOT JUST SPINES
You decided to come to Satterwhite Chiropractic for your back pain — but research suggests that your chiropractic care may also be restoring something even more precious: your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life. Compelling new research on active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain suggests that is exactly what is happening. In two studies, Shannon and colleagues studied not just whether chiropractic care helped — but how and why it helped. The first, published in BMJ Open, reported that chiropractic care enriched a broad range of whole-person outcomes — including sleep quality, fatigue, and physical functioning — and that these improvements were clearly connected to reductions in how much back pain was hampering daily life. (1) The second, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, followed patients for a full year and verified that these wide-reaching benefits were real, lasting, and still measurable at both three months and twelve months out. (2) The soldiers and service members in these studies faced powerful physical demands and chronic stress — but their struggles with back pain, poor sleep, fatigue, and limited mobility are ones that many of us know intimately in our own everyday lives. If you have been wondering whether chiropractic care is worth a try, or whether it can help you deal with more than just pain, the answer emerging 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 Satterwhite Chiropractic is here to help!
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: A Simple Habit That Could Help You Sleep Better Tonight
While chiropractic care is reported to be able to improve your sleep, there are things you can do between visits to brace even better rest. One comes from a new 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 decreasing anxiety and boosting emotional regulation. (3) Slow, intentional movement has a remarkable ability to lower the stress and mental chatter that so often stand between us and a really restful night. Try adding just 15 to 20 minutes of slow, mindful movement to your evening routine and let it work alongside your chiropractic care here at Satterwhite Chiropractic. Please chat with us at your next appointment about how this may benefit 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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