Continued McHenry Chiropractic Care Helps Back Pain Management
Regular McHenry chiropractic care. A helpful idea? Yep! Consider other good regular care ideas: Endocrinologists recommend that diabetics regularly monitor their blood sugars. Dentists recommend regular teeth cleanings a couple times a year to keep plaque away. Cardiologists at the American Heart Association recommend exercising at least 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic physical activity a week to make an impact on heart health. Health experts recommend regular daily exercise for 150 minutes a week to keep the body in tune. Nutritionists recommend proper food intake a day: fruits, veggies, proteins, fats, etc., to nourish the body properly. Spinal manipulation for back pain relief is recommended by the American College of Physicians, American Pain Society, and the American Medical Association. (1,2) Chiropractors recommend spinal manipulation treatments regularly, too, not necessarily every day once the pain is under control, but regularly to keep in check spine pain – back pain, neck pain, arm pain, leg pain. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic treats many McHenry chiropractic patients on a regular basis, McHenry chiropractic patients who choose such care to keep their spines as healthy and pain-free as possible.
BACK PAIN STATS
80% of us humans will experience at least one episode of back pain in our lifetime. A third of us has back pain right now. Back pain comes and goes, not typically disappearing forever, depending on activities. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic often informs patients that the current episode of back pain is getting your attention for a reason. If for no other reason, it is asking for care. It won’t be disregarded. Your spine will value an effective treatment plan to get rid of the pain as well as a plan to maintain its mobility and health.
CONTINUED CARE BENEFITS
That’s where regular chiropractic care comes into play. Surely our McHenry chiropractic patients understand that chiropractic care alleviates back pain and neck pain and related extremity pain like arm and leg pain. They also understand that they don’t want to suffer with that pain again! While there is no guarantee that back pain or neck pain won’t come back, keeping that pain at bay and/or keeping its return to as mild as possible is a worthy goal as is a goal to be able to do everyday activities as pain free and worry free as possible. A new study called the Nordic Maintenance Care Program reported that such chiropractic maintenance care decreased the number of days of bothersome pain that reduced activities and improved the number of pain free weeks between episodes. These outcomes may well help patients and doctors realistically temper their expectations of care. Maintenance care is not a cure, doesn’t stop new episodes necessarily, but it is a plan to decrease life-routine disrupting pain for back pain sufferers who have recurrent and persistent low back pain. (3) For these McHenry back pain patients, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Dixon on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how 20 years of maintenance care benefited his veteran patient contain his back pain so that he could live his life the way he wants to live it.
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Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. Make regular chiropractic care a part of your complete healthcare plan for your spine’s health.
