“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear all
the time. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the simplest and quickest 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 have to see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office encourages
our Groton back pain patients and neck pain patients to participate in their back pain relief process. It makes
a difference. It may well alter your life for
the better. Many Groton chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Amazingly up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study weren’t actively engaged in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe 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 distinctive
plan to deal with 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 found that a variety of approaches to reduce
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
tries to do anything possible to help our Groton
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 are a part of the problem, whole body
electrical stimulation improved patients’
strength and stabilization in good time, decreasing
pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There’s
an app for that!”? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 effectiveness of
various interventions at various times
for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data,
researchers plan to fill the app with tips and exercises that have
benefited others with similar issues. Each
patient’s app will then be tailored for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based upon others with similar conditions found helpful and
relieving. (4) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office looks forward to saying “There's an app for
that!" Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows that some of our Groton back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares how
back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a Groton chiropractic visit
soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Be ready to be engaged with your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be pleasantly
surprised 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.