Healthy News May 2020

Continued McHenry chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to visit for chiropractic care at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. In the end, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the McHenry chiropractor. For others, when the pain is . The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it makes sense to quit coming. However, there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the timespan of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not simply go away. The bruise is now a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a McHenry chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of McHenry back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is the McHenry chiropractic care partner for you!

McHenry exercise benefits patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it is not often prescribed as much as opioids.

McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain

A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise during the week benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Unfortunately, in the year prior to back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% experienced at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% were prescribed at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here to do this with you!

Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to managing McHenry back pain.

CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic

Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic appointment now with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is your spine care and back pain management partner!