Back pain patients come to Spine & Sports Rehab Center with
all sorts of different issues. Some walk better than
others. Some have better muscles than others. Some are more susceptible
to depression than others. Your Baton Rouge
chiropractor knows
this and joins each back pain patient where s/he is and examines
each patient to find the difference(s) that make all the
difference when designing an alleviating
chiropractic treatment plan. Assessments like the 6-minute walk
test that measures the distance walked in 6 minutes and
the TUG (‘time up to go’ from a seated position) test can be quite informative of musculoskeletal
and cardiovascular health in degenerative lumbar spine patients. Both may
be influenced by
back pain.
(1) Back muscles that turn weak and fatty (like the multifidus muscle tends to do) indicate
issues with inflammatory and regeneration processes. (Back surgeons don’t
like this as a poorer surgical outcome is likely.)
(2) Chiropractors know this and promote
gentle
exercise for these back muscles as part of the treatment plan
to avert recurrent back pain that a few low back
disc degeneration sufferers experience.
A new
study described that those who tend to experience
recurrent back pain were found to move differently,
more carefully, likely to avoid pain. Recurrent
back pain patients also experienced higher levels of
anxiety, depression, and disability as well as a lower
quality of life. (3) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor welcomes
all back pain sufferers with all their peculiarities. Your
chiropractor teams up with with each one throughout
the current back pain episode and beyond to control the back pain (emotional,
physical and mental features),
so it doesn’t control them.
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Nike Taylor on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson on how she helps a chronic back pain patient dealing with a
recurrent episode of back pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management to find relief and a feeling of control over back
pain to lessen recurrent back pain episodes as much as possible.

Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:
SMELLING SCENTS TO LESSEN PAIN!
An interesting study of chronic low back
pain patients reported that odor-training helped decrease
their pain thresholds. Regular exposure (every 2 hours in the study) to scents like rose, vanilla, peach and chocolate –
olfactory training! - helped ease pain. The researchers hinted
that it may help lessen pain chronification and quite probably
control general pain via desensitization. (4) What a pleasant
adjunct this could be to the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management! You may want to try sniffing some pleasurable
scents yourself!
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