McHenry Stress and Its Contribution to Back Pain
From firefighters to nurses, from children to older folks - and all of us in between - work-related stress is stressful. It influences our experience of pain and often elicits bouts of back pain and neck pain and back-related and neck-related pain. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here to help suppress the impact of work-related stress as much as possible. McHenry back pain and neck pain patients carry everything – including their stress – with them to OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. You can, too! Together, we will handle work-stress and back and neck pain.
WORK-RELATED STRESS
Work-related stress messes with us. It gets our attention through pain. None of us is resistant to stress, not even a kid! A kid’s job is being a kid and attending school on the way to adulthood. Along the way, kids experience job-related stress. The pressures of grades and friends and news and learning problems get to them. Adolescents find themselves with low back pain, too. Depression, anxiety, coercion, uneasy relationships, extreme academic pressures, and unsatisfactory school lives may all put college students at risk for chronic low back pain. (1) 11% of firefighters reported moderate to extremely severe work-related stress. 40% described musculoskeletal symptoms with back pain being the most noted. More stress is linked to more such symptoms. (2) Trash collectors reported back pain issues – upper back pain 89%, shoulder pain 81%, wrist/hand pain 79%, neck pain 68% - which translated into higher psychological demands for them. (3) Researchers found that psychological factors and fear-avoidance behaviors caused 11.8% of nursing care facility workers’ stating that chronic low back pain interfered with their work. (4) It is an unusual person whose job is pure happiness and stress-free. The rest of us find ways to manage. Your McHenry chiropractor is here for you.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THE STRESSED
Chiropractors like yours at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic see stressed-out patients. One report found that more than 30% of chiropractic patients said they were moderately to severely stressed. Over 50% felt stress played a moderate or greater role in their current pain. 71% said that it would be helpful if their chiropractic care had some stress-coping strategies. 44% were interested in participating in a class to boost their stress management skills. (5) Chiropractic care is offered to all, regardless of age or profession. Your McHenry chiropractor is equipped to diagnose the physical cause of back pain and neck pain and to correlate any work-related stress that may be contributing to your McHenry back pain and neck pain. The discussion of how to better deal with stress via lifestyle changes, exercise, etc., helps many McHenry back pain and neck pain patients improve with the McHenry chiropractic treatment plan.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Hayden on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who enjoys working with the most difficult, stressed-out back pain and neck pain patients with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management as part of the chiropractic treatment plan.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic welcomes everyone suffering with McHenry back pain and neck pain conditions. Together, we’ll make a treatment plan for your relief.
