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Healthy News July 2024

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CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC

Chronic back pain drives many sufferers to their doctors for relief. Chronic back pain’s impact on the sufferer and his/her “default mode network” of living often has something to do the years lived with pain: the longer the pain period, the more influence the pain has on the patient and his/her cognitive pain coping attitude. (1) Not shocking, but it is now published and will likely be studied more. It’s also known that lumbar spinal stenosis patients vary in their symptom severity and improvement path from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is truly a unique journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation tops clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) As a matter of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care options lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a leading recommendation in many treatment recommendation lists by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. (4) Using chiropractic care and such approaches as mindfulness - which has been shown to improve pain-related functions - may be quite beneficial for you. (5)

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Joseph Beissel and his chronic back pain patient on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson  about the utilization of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to manage chronic back pain and return some joy to life. 

 
 
Sitka peppermint pain relieving benefits 
 

Sitka CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!

We all need a boost on occasion. The past few stressful years are catching up with us. Whether you’re tired or healing, peppermint may put some pep into your system. A recent study described how inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery reduced patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study detailed how peppermint oil inhalation decreased cardiac surgery patients’ post-op nausea. (7) Adding peppermint oil to a footbath for adolescents with primary headache disorder showed that both the control and participant groups had a significant reduction in headache pain and decrease in anxiety over time with no adverse events. 95.6% of the participants favored and recommended this! (8) Craving some relaxation? Peppermint oil may be a helper!

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