“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the easiest and quickest way possible. This is not
always possible though. We all have to look at our pain and make
friends with it to some extent. We have to see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc encourages
our Fort Wayne back pain patients and neck pain patients to take
part in their back pain relief process. It can make
a difference. It may well change your life for
the better. Many Fort Wayne chiropractic patients have experienced this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Amazingly up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study were not actively involved in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with reports
emphasizing the importance 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 offending factors that interfered with
patients’ participation in their own care, researchers created a special
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 found that a mix of approaches to drop
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
tries to do whatever it takes to help our Fort Wayne
back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain
patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It dropped
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 a timely fashion, dropping
pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There’s
an app for that!”? Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is positive you have! Not
surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the
works to help you keep track of self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are now
collecting 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 experiencing similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be customized for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based upon others with similar conditions reported helpful and
relieving. (4) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc looks forward to saying “There's an app for
that!" Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc knows that some of our Fort Wayne back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how
back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment
soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc. Be ready to be engaged with your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be so happy that the pill or “something” was not offered once you are feeling better in terms of
back pain relief and mental contentment that you were an active
part of the relief process.