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The Path of Baton Rouge Back Pain Contained with Chiropractic Care

April 04, 2023

You have a bout of back pain – first, second, tenth. Are you curious about what that means going forward? Of course! The trajectory – researchers’ term for the path of back pain – of the Baton Rouge back pain experience is unique to each, but there are issues that may help foretell that course. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers shares some input on the effect of lifestyle and chiropractic care.

WHAT TO DO – Chiropractic

A new article’s findings make seeking chiropractic care logical to influence the path of back pain. Patients who undergo chiropractic care for their chronic (more than 3 months) and acute (under a month) low back pain who reported “much better” or “better” at one week of care were 4 to 5 times more likely to report improvement at 30 days and 90 days of care. Particularly, acute back pain patients who reported having more severe pain and disability in the beginning of care recovered faster. Most patients with lumbar radicular leg pain bettered. Both chronic and acute back pain patients reported good outcomes. (1) Another study of the interdisciplinary care (spine surgeons/chiropractors in a university hospital) of chronic back pain patients recorded that almost half of the chronic low back pain patients cared with chiropractic conservative care reported clinically relevant improvement. (2) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers sees even better outcomes with our particular form of chiropractic care, Cox® Technic!

WHAT TO DO – More Chiropractic

So why halt chiropractic care with pain relief? Researchers documented that low back pain patients who have chiropractic maintenance carechiropractic treatments on a regular basis regardless of their symptoms – reported fewer days of low back pain that limited their activities of daily living contrasted with getting treatment only when a new low back pain episode arose. (3) More Baton Rouge chiropractic care on a regular basis seems beneficial.

WHAT TO DO – More Activity

More is not always better, but some kinds of more are better, like chiropractic and activity. A low back pain patient with a lifetime history of back pain may want to consider engaging in higher volumes of moderate to vigorous physical activity since it was shown to reduce the odds of extending severe low back pain over the next year. (4) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows none of us back pain sufferers wants to hear that, but it’s the finding of one study. More intense exercise was shown beneficial. Know too that a sedentary lifestyle – work and/or pleasure time – moderately raises the odds of low back pain. (5) There is a middle ground! Let’s at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers discover that with you, the spot that inhibits back pain and allows you to be as active as you want to be.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Kurt Olding  on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the at-times great number of options for back pain relief including The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

Make your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment soon to control your back pain’s trajectory, to lessen the impact of back pain on your life forward.