Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That is the key factor in aging well and enjoying life to its fullest. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is honored to work with Groton chiropractic patients to enhance their odds of aging well and relishing the best quality of life possible. Groton back pain patients value knowing what factors might adversely affect their quality of life and their options to diminish the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain decrease quality of life. These conditions often arise in mid-life and older life, making life not very enjoyable. Researchers found factors that seem to decrease the odds of acquiring these problems. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Good spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No trouble with locomotion syndrome – difficulty switching positions. Stable body balance. With such good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are notoriously key issues in motor control functions like balance, attempts to strengthen these specifically are critical to attempt to turn around such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is manytimes a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Groton back pain patients. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to choose and shares what the researchers say about the options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To get the most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the best option for every Groton back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery does not always result in the desired outcome, especially for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that come with it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who reportedly experienced minimal to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain recommend non-surgical options like spinal manipulation as the first step. Chiropractic care is all about spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office incorporates Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to achieve the sought after pain reduction outcome.
Groton CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are presently looking into the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance improvement in patients with low back pain, particularly active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were associated with back pain. (4) Low back pain is a frequent reason for disability in the military. Seeing as how military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s results will be interesting! Another study that added chiropractic - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic procedures such as rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – enhanced short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office gathers these helpful studies to share with our Groton back pain patients.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, improved his quality of life notwithstanding his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Groton chiropractic visit. Together, you and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will set a course to make sure your quality of life in middle and older age is as enjoyable as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
