Healthy News May 2020

Continued Oxford chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY VISIT YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they must come for chiropractic care at Satterwhite Chiropractic. Ultimately, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Oxford chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it seems normal to stop care. Only there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing the things you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the duration of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It’s like a bruise on an apple. It will not just disappear. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a Oxford chiropractic treatment plan designed together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after a few episodes of Oxford back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid waiting for the pain and having to begin again. Whichever patient type you are, Satterwhite Chiropractic is the Oxford chiropractic care partner to see!

Oxford exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it’s not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Oxford 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 varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise during a week time frame helped patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By bettering pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Unfortunately, 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 just 14.6% experienced a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% got at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care including spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Satterwhite Chiropractic is ready 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 present the conservative approach to dealing with Oxford back pain.

CONTACT Satterwhite Chiropractic

Arrange your next Oxford chiropractic appointment now with Satterwhite Chiropractic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Satterwhite Chiropractic is your spine care and back pain management partner!