April 2026 Healthy News from OrthoIllinois Chiropractic: The Winning Combination: Chiropractic Care and Mind-Body Exercise for Pain, Sleep, and Life Wellness
THE CHIROPRACTIC POTENTIAL TO CHANGE LIVES — NOT JUST SPINES
What if your chiropractic care is doing far more than relieving your back pain — what if it is also helping you sleep better, feel less exhausted, and get back to the activities that make your life full and meaningful? Compelling new research on active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain suggests that is exactly what is happening. In two studies, Shannon and colleagues studied not just whether chiropractic care helped — but how and why it helped. The first, published in BMJ Open, reported that chiropractic care enriched a wide range of whole-person outcomes — including sleep quality, fatigue, and physical functioning — and that these improvements were directly connected to decreases in how much back pain was affecting daily life. (1) The second, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, followed patients for a full year and verified that these wide-reaching benefits were real, lasting, and still measurable at both three months and twelve months out. (2) The soldiers and service members in these studies faced intense physical demands and chronic stress — but their struggles with back pain, poor sleep, fatigue, and limited mobility are ones that many of us know intimately in our own everyday lives. If you have been wondering whether chiropractic care is worth a try, or whether it can help with more than just the pain itself, the answer coming out from this research is a resounding yes — your back, your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life may all have something to gain….and your chiropractor here at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready to help!
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: A Simple Habit That Could Help You Sleep Better Tonight
While chiropractic care is reported to be able to improve your sleep, there are things you can do between visits to reinforce even better rest. One comes from a recent study in Frontiers in Public Health that described how mind-body exercises — yoga, tai chi, or qigong — significantly boosted sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults by lowering anxiety and improving emotional regulation. (3) Gentle mindful movement calms the mental noise that keeps us staring at the ceiling. Try adding just 15 to 20 minutes of slow, mindful movement to your evening routine and let it work alongside your chiropractic care here at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Please chat with us at your next appointment about how this may work for you. Sleep well!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris DeVeau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the relieving treatment protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the return of better sleep for a patient with [[non-stop]51]unrelenting arm pain who was not sleeping well.
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