July 2024 Healthy News from Young Chiropractic Chronic Pain Helped with Chiropractic, Mindfulness & Peppermint
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CHRONIC BACK PAIN RELIEF WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Chronic back pain sends many sufferers to doctors’ offices for relief. Chronic back pain’s effect 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 stage 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 certainly be analyzed more. It’s also known that lumbar spinal stenosis patients differ in their symptom severity and improvement track from “improving” to “fluctuating/improving” to “persistent.” (2) Back pain is truly an individual journey, one your chiropractor travels by your side as chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation is high on clinical practice guidelines’ lists of noninvasive, non-drug pain therapies. (3) In point of published fact, non-surgical, conservative care choices lead treatment recommendations lists. Spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, is a top recommendation in many treatment recommendation records by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. (4) Using chiropractic care and such methods 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 use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management treatment protocols to contain chronic back pain and return some joy to life.
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Easley CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Consider Peppermint Oil: A Relaxing Boost!
We all may be in need of a boost every once in a while. The past few stressful years are catching up with us. Whether you are tired or healing, peppermint may add some energy into your system. A recent study shared that inhalation of peppermint post-back-surgery reduced patients’ anxiety and pain levels. (6) Another study found that 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 reduction 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 of help!
Young Chiropractic is pleased to be your Easley chiropractor and appreciates your sharing your chiropractic experience with family and friends! We look forward to seeing you soon!