Largo Back Pain Benefits from Good Sleep
The exercise topic of the month is…sleep?! Weird? Not at all! Sleep is just as important as exercise for pain management including back pain management. Hollstrom & Associates Inc helps many Largo pain sufferers manage their spine, neck, and back pain with chiropractic spinal manipulation, nutrition advice, and exercise direction. Sleep – adequate sleep – is included in that list for a good purpose!
CONTROLLING BACK PAIN
Since low back pain many times is a condition for life that comes and goes, a condition that is managed rather than cured, it is a positive thing that researchers are studying just how a back pain sufferer can take charge of the Largo back pain and how often it ‘rears its head.' Question any back pain sufferer and you’ll know that warding off a pain episode is a goal. But how? Researchers are looking at sleep, fatigue, emotion, and more to figure that out. Hollstrom & Associates Inc introduces the term “flare” as it relates to a back pain episode.
BACK PAIN FLARE
A Largo low back pain flare is one that includes intensified pain, paresthesia, or muscle tension, increased duration of symptoms, reduced functional (social, cognitive, physical), and negative emotions. Researchers found that back pain sufferers do not describe their back pain to be a flare just because of increased pain, so healthcare professionals need to look past the pain to know what else is going on around the pain event, what psychosocial factors are at play. (1,2) The mind-body connection can’t always be ignored! Nor can the time of day that pain is felt.
PAIN: MORNING NOON AND NIGHT
Patients dealing with low back pain for more than 3 months were studied to see what might bring on a new episode of their pain. Researchers found that poor sleep quality and morning pain were threats for such flare-ups. Increased pain risk rose with days of more afternoon and evening pain, fatigue, and fear of activity. Sleep is suggested to decrease the intensity, frequency, and risk of back pain flares. (3) Sleep quality also plays a part in how Largo back pain is experienced.
SLEEP QUALITY
An analysis of sleep quality in older adults in six middle-income countries found that women experienced more sleep problems. Further, age, depression, low back pain, and poor self-rated health were also significantly associated with sleep problems. (4) Sleep, perceived stress, and anxiety contribute to chronic low back pain. Luckily, sleep quality is capable of mediating anxiety, making sleep a reasonable recommendation in the treatment plan. (5)
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ted Siciliano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to deliver relieving treatment for his arm pain and numbness that was keeping him from getting sleep.
Make your Largo chiropractic appointment today. Let us talk sleep next time you are in for a visit!
