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Continued Baton Rouge Chiropractic Care Helps Back Pain Management

May 26, 2020

Regular Baton Rouge chiropractic care. A helpful idea? Yep! Consider other helpful regular care ideas: Endocrinologists recommend that diabetics regularly monitor their blood sugars. Dentists recommend regular teeth cleanings a couple times a year to keep plaque at bay. Cardiologists at the American Heart Association recommend doing at least 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic physical activity a week to have an impact on heart health. Health experts recommend regular daily exercise for 30 minutes a day five days a week to maintain optimal health for the body.  Nutritionists recommend a good diet a day: fruits, veggies, proteins, fats, etc., to nourish the body properly. Spinal manipulation for back pain relief is recommended by the American College of Physicians, American Pain Society, and the American Medical Association. (1,2) Chiropractors recommend spinal manipulation treatments regularly, too, not necessarily daily once the pain is under control, but on a regular schedule to keep in check spine pain – back pain, neck pain, arm pain, leg pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers sees many Baton Rouge chiropractic patients on a regular basis, Baton Rouge chiropractic patients who choose such care to keep their spines as healthy and pain-free as possible.

BACK PAIN STATS

80% of us humans will have at least one episode of back pain in our lifetime. One in 3 of us has back pain this moment. Back pain is known to wax and wane not go away forever. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers often advises patients that the existing episode of back pain is getting your attention for a reason. If for no other reason, it is asking for care. It won’t be ignored. Your spine will be grateful for an effective treatment plan to end the pain as well as a plan to keep it mobile and healthy.

CONTINUED CARE BENEFITS

That is where regular chiropractic care comes into play. Certainly our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients realize that chiropractic care relieves back pain and neck pain and related extremity pain like arm and leg pain. They also understand that they don’t want to suffer with such pain again! While there is no guarantee that back pain or neck pain won’t come back, preventing pain and/or its return to as mild as possible is a worthy goal as is a goal to be able to do daily activities as pain free and worry free as possible. A recent study titled the Nordic Maintenance Care Program reported that such chiropractic maintenance care decreased the number of days of bothersome pain that reduced activities and increased the number of pain free weeks between episodes. These outcomes may well facilitate patients’ and doctors’ realistically temper their expectations of care. Maintenance care is not a cure, doesn’t avert new episodes necessarily, but it’s a plan to decrease life-routine disrupting pain for back pain sufferers with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (3) For these Baton Rouge back pain patients, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is here.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joel Dixon  on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how 20 years of maintenance care benefited his veteran patient contain his back pain so that he could do what he wanted in his life.

CONTACT Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers

Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers today. Incorporate regular chiropractic care as part of your total healthcare plan for your spine’s health.

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers offers continued chiropractic care (aka maintenance care) as it is research-documented to be effective.