July 2024 Healthy News from Vancouver Disc Centers 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 effect 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 published and will likely be analyzed more. It’s also understood that lumbar spinal stenosis patients differ in their symptom severity and improvement path from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is really a unique journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation tops clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) In point of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care choices 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 methods 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 manage chronic back pain and allow you to enjoy your life a bit more.
Vancouver CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all need a boost occasionally. The past few years of stress are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may put some energy into your system. A recent study shared that inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery lowered 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 showed that both the control and participant groups had a significant decrease in headache pain and reduction in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants liked and recommended this! (8) Time for some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be your friend!
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