July 2024 Healthy News from Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain sends 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 stage the more influence the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not surprising, but it is now described in the medical literature and will certainly be analyzed more. It’s also understood that lumbar spinal stenosis patients differ in their symptom severity and improvement track from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is truly a unique journey, one your chiropractor goes on with you as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation is high on 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 top 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.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all need a boost every once in a while. The past few years of stress are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may add some pep into your system. A recent study described how inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery lowered patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study found that 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 reduction in headache pain and decrease in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants favored and recommended this! (8) Time for some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be your friend!
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is pleased to be your Groton chiropractor and appreciates your sharing your chiropractic experience with family and friends! We look forward to seeing you soon!