Groton Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain

Smoking. We know how bad it is. Smoking is bad. The body doesn’t like it. Your spine hates it! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office likes your spine and offers Groton chiropractic care for your spine. You like your spine or at least require it! Do what you can to keep your spine healthy. Let Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office care for your spine when it requires a little help to re-discover its healthy state. The first step toward health for a Groton smoker suffering with back pain may require a chiropractic treatment plan that includes a plan to quit smoking.

WHO SMOKES?

Researchers are curious about issues related to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who went through back surgery, they found that 18% were smokers. The researchers stated that compared to the non-smokers, the smokers were younger, male, nondiabetic, and nonobese. Patients in this group who have coronary artery disease were more apt to be smokers. Smokers who had lumbar spine back surgery presented initially more with leg pain than back pain and disability. Their employment, insurance/uninsured, and education status were also linked to smoking status. Interestingly though, smoking status did not affect the disability status at a year after back surgery. (1) Altering such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office would encourage a Groton smoker who has Groton back pain create a plan to stop smoking.

SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY

The body gets what is good for it…and what is not. Smoking is not. Studying 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is most strongly connected to spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain followed. Active smoking is linked to pain in every part of the body. The spine and head bear the brunt of the painful effect though. If a smoker doesn’t like pain, you will want to think about stop smoking! (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is with you to back your effort to stop smoking when you are ready.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Silke Laub of chiropractic’s contribution to palliative care of a patient with cancer who has neuropathic pain related to chemotherapy. Dr. Michael Johnson of The Back Doctors Podcast emphasized the supportive side of chiropractic care and Cox® Technic for patients with spine related pain.

Schedule your next Groton chiropractic visit with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is really bothersome to the spine. Being the Groton back pain specialist, your Groton chiropractor is here to relieve back pain and help any means you choose to decrease your back pain.