Healthy News June 2021

Murfreesboro chiropractic care helps control chronic back pain that causes pain beyond the back and into life that prevents sufferers from enjoying their lives. 

Back pain patients come to Most Chiropractic Clinic with all sorts of different issues. Some walk better than others. Some have better muscles than others. Some are more susceptible to depression than others. Your Murfreesboro chiropractor understands this and meets each back pain patient where s/he is and assesses each patient to find the difference(s) that make all the difference when designing a relieving chiropractic treatment plan. Assessments like the 6-minute walk test that evaluates the distance walked in 6 minutes and the TUG (‘time up to go’ from a seated position) test can be quite informative of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health in degenerative lumbar spine patients. Both may be influenced by back pain. (1) Back muscles that turn weak and fatty (like the multifidus muscle tends to do) signify issues with inflammatory and regeneration processes. (Back surgeons do not like this as a inferior surgical outcome is likely.) (2) Chiropractors get this and promote gentle exercise for these back muscles as a component of the treatment plan to avert recurrent back pain that some low back disc degeneration sufferers experience. A new study described that those who tend to get recurrent back pain were found to move in a different way, more carefully, likely to evade pain. Recurrent back pain patients also suffered with higher levels of anxiety, depression, and disability along with a lower quality of life. (3) Your Murfreesboro chiropractor welcomes all back pain sufferers with all their issues. Your chiropractor teams up with with each one throughout the current back pain event and beyond to control the back pain (emotional, physical and mental aspects), so it does not control them.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Nike Taylor on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson on how she helps a chronic back pain patient dealing with a recurrent episode of back pain with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to find relief and a feeling of control over back pain to minimize recurrent back pain episodes as much as possible.

Chronic Murfreesboro back pain may be helped by olfactory training which uses smelling scents to desensitize the sufferer to the pain.

Murfreesboro CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH:

SNIFFING SCENTS TO LESSEN PAIN!

An appealing study of chronic low back pain patients reported that odor-training helped reduce their pain thresholds. Regular exposure (every 2 hours in the research project) to scents like rose, vanilla, peach and chocolate – olfactory training! - helped lessen pain. The researchers hinted that it may help ease pain chronification and quite probably control general pain via desensitization. (4) What a pleasant addition this could be to the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management! You may want to try sniffing some pleasurable scents yourself!

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