Healthy News May 2020

Continued Largo chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to visit for chiropractic care at Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Ultimately, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Largo chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it makes sense to stop care. However, there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care reduced the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the timespan of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It’s like a bruise on an apple. It won’t simply disappear. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is certainly pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Largo chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain episodes. Some patients ask for maintenance care after a few episodes of Largo back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid waiting for the pain and having to begin again. Whichever patient type you are, Hollstrom & Associates Inc is the Largo chiropractic care partner to see!

Largo exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it’s not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Largo CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain

A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise during the week benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By making better pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year prior to back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% experienced a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% got at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is ready to do this with you!

Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to dealing with Largo back pain.

CONTACT Hollstrom & Associates Inc

Arrange your next Largo chiropractic appointment now with Hollstrom & Associates Inc for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is your spine care and back pain management partner!