“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear all
the time. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the easiest and fastest way possible. This is not
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. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre encourages
our Toronto back pain patients and neck pain patients to take
part in their back pain relief process. It can make
a difference. It may well change your life for
the better. Many Toronto 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 ripe with papers
highlighting the importance 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 created a special
plan to address these issues and raise
the patients’ understanding and participation via text reminders, exercises,
lifestyle changes, webinars, videos, paper educational materials and more. (1) One
study found that a mix of approaches to drop
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one certain
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
tries to do whatever it takes to help our Toronto
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 due to back pain are a part of the problem, whole body
electrical stimulation improved patients’
strength and stabilization in good time, dropping
pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There is
an app for that!”? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is sure you have! Not
surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in development to help you keep track of self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are now
collecting data on the effectiveness of
various interventions at various times
for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data,
researchers will fill the app with tips and exercises that have
worked for others experiencing similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be personalized for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based upon others with similar conditions found helpful and
relieving. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre looks forward to saying “There's an app for
that!" Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows that some of our Toronto back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he outlines how
back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a Toronto chiropractic visit
soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Be ready to be engaged with your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will be pleasantly
surprised that the pill or “something” wasn’t presented
to you once you are feeling better regarding
back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active
part of the relief process.