Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the central factor in aging well and taking pleasure in life to its fullest. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is privileged to work with Baton Rouge chiropractic patients to boost their chances of aging well and experiencing the best quality of life possible. Baton Rouge back pain patients appreciate knowing what factors might adversely impact their quality of life and their options to reduce 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 happen in mid-life and older life, making life not very enjoyable. Researchers found factors that seem to decrease the odds of suffering with these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Fine spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No trouble with locomotion syndrome – trouble with moving from one position to another, one place to another. 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 important issues in motor control functions like balance, efforts to strengthen these particularly are important to attempt to reverse such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is often a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Baton Rouge back pain patients. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers realizes that back pain sufferers have many healthcare forms of care from which to pick and shares what the researchers say about the options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To benefit most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the best option for every Baton Rouge back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery doesn’t 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 supposedly experienced little 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 incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is all about Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to get the desired pain reduction outcome.
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are presently looking into the particular effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance better outcomes 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 common reason for disability in the military. Given that 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 approaches 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers collects these positive studies to share with our Baton Rouge back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details his care of a back pain patient who found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, returning him to a satisfactory quality of life despite his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Baton Rouge chiropractic visit. Together, you and Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers will set a course to ensure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the negative influence of back pain and other painful musculoskeletal diseases.
