“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the easiest and fastest way possible. This is not
always possible though. We all need to look at our pain and make
friends with it to some extent. We can see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries urges
our Manchester back pain patients and neck pain patients to take
part in their back pain relief process. It makes
a difference. It may perhaps even alter your life for
the better. Many Manchester chiropractic patients have experienced this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study weren’t actively engaged in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with papers
highlighting the significance of patient-engagement
with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients involved?
In researcher-ease, environmental context and resources, emotion, memory/attention/decision-making,
and behavioural regulation did. Knowing that these things were the
interfering culprits that interfered with
patients’ participation in their own care, researchers made a distinctive
plan to address these issues and improve
the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises,
lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One
study discovered that a mix of approaches to lessen
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
tries to do anything possible to help our Manchester
back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain
patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It reduced
nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening
exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations due to back pain play a role, whole body
electrical stimulation improved patients’
strength and stabilization in good time, reducing
pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There’s
an app for that!”? Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is positive you have! Not
surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the
works to help you manage self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently
gathering data on the usefulness of
various interventions at various times
for nonspecific low back pain. From this data collection,
researchers plan to fill the app with tips and exercises that have
worked for others with similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be customized for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on
what others with similar conditions reported helpful and
relieving. (4) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries looks forward to saying “There is an app for
that!" Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows that some of our Manchester back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he outlines how
back pain patients can best help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a Manchester chiropractic visit
soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. Be ready to be engaged with your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will be so happy that the pill or “something” wasn’t available once you are feeling better regarding
back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active
part of the relief process.