July 2024 Healthy News from Satterwhite Chiropractic Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain drives many sufferers to doctors’ offices for help. Chronic back pain’s impact on the sufferer and his/her “default mode network” of living reflects the years lived with pain: the longer the pain period, the more impact the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not surprising, but it’s now described in the medical literature and will likely be studied more. It’s also understood that lumbar spinal stenosis patients vary in their symptom severity and improvement path from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is truly an individual journey, one your chiropractor goes on with you as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation is high on clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) As a matter of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care options lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a leading recommendation in many treatment recommendation records 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 most helpful 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 contain chronic back pain and return some joy to life.
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all may be in need of a boost occasionally. The past few stressful years are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may put some pep into your system. A recent study shared that inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery decreased patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study detailed how peppermint oil inhalation reduced cardiac surgery patients’ post-op nausea. (7) Adding peppermint oil to a footbath for adolescents with primary headache disorder found that both the control and participant groups had a significant reduction in headache pain and decrease in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants favored and recommended this! (8) Time for some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be a helper!
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