Vancouver Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain
Smoking. We know it’s bad. Smoking is bad. The body does not like it. Your spine really doesn’t like it! Vancouver Disc Centers loves your spine and offers Vancouver chiropractic care for your spine. You like your spine or at least require it! Be good to your spine and keep it healthy! Let Vancouver Disc Centers take care of your spine when it needs some special attention to re-discover its healthy state. Step one toward health for a Vancouver smoker suffering with back pain may necessitate a chiropractic treatment plan that includes a plan to quit smoking.
WHO SMOKES?
Researchers are curious about issues linked to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who experienced back surgery, they found that 18% were smokers. The researchers observed that contrasted with the non-smokers, the smokers were younger, male, nondiabetic, and nonobese. These patients who suffer with coronary artery disease were more liable to be smokers. Smokers who had lumbar spine back surgery presented initially more with leg pain than back pain and disability. Their employment, insurance/uninsured, and education status were also related to smoking status. Fascinatingly though, smoking status didn’t influence the disability status one year after back surgery. (1) Altering such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Vancouver Disc Centers would encourage a Vancouver smoker who has Vancouver back pain create a plan to stop smoking.
SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY
The body knows what’s good for it…and what is not. Smoking isn’t. Examining 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is greatly associated with spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain ensued. Active smoking is linked to pain in every part of the body. The spine and head take the force of the painful effect though. If a smoker doesn’t like pain, you will want to consider stop smoking! (2) Vancouver Disc Centers is with you to back your effort to stop smoking when you’re ready.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Silke Laub of chiropractic’s contribution to palliative care of a patient with cancer who has neuropathic pain related to chemotherapy. Dr. Michael Johnson of The Back Doctors Podcast highlighted the supportive side of chiropractic care and Cox® Technic for patients with spine related pain.
Schedule your next Vancouver chiropractic visit with Vancouver Disc Centers. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is really troublesome to the spine. Being the Vancouver back pain specialist, your Vancouver chiropractor is here to relieve back pain and support any efforts you choose to reduce your back pain.
