Auburn Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management
“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the easiest and fastest way possible. This isn’t always possible though. We all need to look at our pain and make friends with it to some extent. We can see it for what it is. Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. encourages our Auburn back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It can make a difference. It may perhaps even alter your life for the better. Many Auburn chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study were not actively involved in their spine care treatment plan. Research is filled with papers emphasizing the significance of patient-engagement with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients participating? In researcher-ease, environmental context and resources, emotion, memory/attention/decision-making, and behavioural regulation did. Knowing that these things were the interfering offending factors that reduced patients’ participation in their own care, researchers made a special plan to address these issues and increase the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises, lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One study discovered that a variety of approaches to lessen disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. tries to do whatever it takes to help our Auburn back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It decreased nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations because of back pain play a role, whole body electrical stimulation improved patients’ strength and stabilization in a timely fashion, decreasing pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Ever heard the saying “There’s an app for that!”? Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is positive you have! Not alarming in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the works to help you manage self-management tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are now collecting data on the usefulness of various interventions at various times for nonspecific low back pain. From this data collection, researchers plan to fill the app with tips and exercises that have benefited others experiencing similar issues. Each patient’s app will then be customized for self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based upon others with similar conditions found helpful and relieving. (4) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. looks forward to saying “There's an app for that!" Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. knows that some of our Auburn back pain patients will love this!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he outlines how back pain patients can best help themselves to optimal back pain relief.
Schedule a Auburn chiropractic visit soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.. Be ready to be engaged with your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be so happy that the pill or “something” wasn’t available once you are feeling better regarding back pain relief and mental contentment that you were an active part of the relief process.
