April 2026 Healthy News from Hollstrom & Associates Inc: The Winning Combination: Chiropractic Care and Mind-Body Exercise for Pain, Sleep, and Life Wellness
THE CHIROPRACTIC POTENTIAL TO CHANGE LIVES — NOT JUST SPINES
What if your chiropractic care is doing far more than relieving your back pain — what if it is also helping you sleep better, feel less exhausted, and get back to the activities that make your life full and meaningful? Compelling new research on active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain suggests that is exactly what is happening. In two studies, Shannon and colleagues studied not just whether chiropractic care was helpful — but how and why it helped. The first, published in BMJ Open, reported that chiropractic care improved a wide range of whole-person outcomes — including sleep quality, fatigue, and physical functioning — and that these improvements were directly linked to decreases in how much back pain was hampering daily life. (1) The second, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, followed patients for a full year and confirmed that these wide-reaching benefits were real, lasting, and still measurable at both three months and twelve months out. (2) The soldiers and service members in these studies faced intense physical demands and chronic stress — but their battles with back pain, sleepless nights, and bone-deep exhaustion will sound achingly familiar to many of us. If you have been deliberating whether chiropractic care is worth a try, or whether it can help you deal with more than just pain, the answer coming out from this research is a resounding yes — your back, your sleep, your energy, and your quality of life may all have something to gain….and your chiropractor here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc is here to help!
Largo CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: A Simple Habit That Could Help You Sleep Better Tonight
While chiropractic care is reported to be able to improve your sleep, there are things you can do between visits to support even better rest. One comes from a new study in Frontiers in Public Health that found how mind-body exercises — yoga, tai chi, or qigong — significantly boosted sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults by decreasing anxiety and boosting emotional regulation. (3) Slow, intentional movement has a remarkable ability to dial down the stress and mental chatter that so often stand between us and a truly restful night. Try adding just 15 to 20 minutes of slow, mindful movement to your evening routine and let it work alongside your chiropractic care here at Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Please chat with us at your next appointment about how this may work for you. Sleep well!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris DeVeau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the relieving treatment protocols of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and the return of better sleep for a patient with [[non-stop]51]unrelenting arm pain who was not sleeping well.
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