Hollstrom & Associates Inc Shares Tips on How to Reduce Negative Effects of Back Pain on Your Life
Quality of life. That’s the central factor in aging well and enjoying life to its fullest. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is honored to work with Largo chiropractic patients to increase their odds of aging well and relishing the best quality of life possible. Largo back pain patients understand that knowing what factors might adversely impact their quality of life and their options to reduce the influence of those factors.
FACTORS INFLUENCING BACK PAIN AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Musculoskeletal diseases like osteoporosis, knee arthritis, disc degeneration and related back pain decrease quality of life. These conditions often arise in mid-life and older life, rendering life not very enjoyable. Researchers reported on factors that seem to reduce the odds of getting these conditions. What are they? Lower body mass index (BMI). Fine spinal alignment. Greater back muscle strength. No trouble with locomotion syndrome – trouble with switching positions. Good body balance. With such good factors in place, middle aged and older folks can expect a better quality of life. (1) Further, since lumbar spine extensor muscles are known to be important factors in motor control functions like balance, efforts to strengthen these explicitly are critical to try to reverse such problems as balance control. (2) Exercise is manytimes a part of the chiropractic treatment plan for Largo back pain patients. Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows that back pain sufferers have many options of care from which to choose and shares what the researchers say about the options.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
To get the most out of an option, the circumstances must be optimal. Back surgery may not always be the best option for every Largo back pain patient. Undergoing back surgery does not always result in the desired outcome, particularly for patients with back pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. The pain and disability that come with it stayed around for 29% to 42% of patients who reportedly had little to no benefit from back surgery. (3) Today’s guidelines of care for back pain propose non-surgical options like spinal manipulation first. Chiropractic care incorporates spinal manipulation. Chiropractic care at Hollstrom & Associates Inc incorporates Cox® Technic flexion distraction decompression spinal manipulation to achieve the desired pain reduction outcome.
Largo CHIROPRACTIC CARE OUTCOMES
Chiropractic researchers are currently looking into the specific effects of chiropractic care’s spinal manipulation on balance, strength and endurance better outcomes in patients with low back pain, especially active military personnel as 20% of all disability discharges were associated with back pain. (4) Low back pain is a frequent reason for disability in the military. Given that military personnel are people like the rest of us, this study’s findings will be interesting! In another study, the addition of chiropractic care - spinal manipulative therapy to the low back and adjacent regions along with other therapeutic procedures such as rehabilitative exercise, cryotherapy, superficial heat, and other manual therapies - to usual medical care - self-care, medications, physical therapy, and pain clinic referral – improved short-term outcomes in low back pain intensity and disability in active duty military. (5) Hollstrom & Associates Inc collects these positive studies to share with our Largo back pain patients.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael McMurray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details his care of a back pain patient who attained relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Manipulation, returning him to a satisfactory quality of life despite his lumbar spinal stenosis condition.
Schedule your next Largo chiropractic visit. Together, you and Hollstrom & Associates Inc will set a course to ensure your quality of life in middle and older age is as pleasant as possible without the harmful influence of back pain and other uncomfortable musculoskeletal diseases.
