Healthy News May 2020

Continued Georgetown chiropractic care helps keep back pain away.

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

Patients often ask how long they must come for chiropractic care at Dr. Butwell. In the end, their relief decides this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the Georgetown 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. Only there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of days with pain in acute episodes and improved the timespan of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It will not simply go away. The bruise becomes a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely refreshing, and continued chiropractic care via a Georgetown chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of Georgetown back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Dr. Butwell is the Georgetown chiropractic care partner for you!

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

Georgetown 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 throughout the week benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By bettering 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% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% were prescribed 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. Dr. Butwell 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 managing Georgetown back pain.

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Arrange your next Georgetown chiropractic appointment today with Dr. Butwell for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Dr. Butwell is your spine care and back pain management partner!