Severna Park Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management

“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Back And Neck Care Center and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the least effort required and quickest way possible. This isn’t always possible though. We all have 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. Back And Neck Care Center encourages our Severna Park 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 Severna Park chiropractic patients have lived this.

SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS

Amazingly up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study were not actively engaged in their spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with reports 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 deal with 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 discovered 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, Back And Neck Care Center tries to do anything possible to help our Severna Park 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 just as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations due to back pain play a role, whole body electrical stimulation helped fearful patients with their strength and stabilization in good time, dropping pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Back And Neck Care Center shares such alternatives to help our patients.

SELF-MANAGEMENT APP

Have you heard “There is an app for that!”? Back And Neck Care Center is sure you have! Not surprising45 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 gathering data on the usefulness of various interventions at baseline, 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 9 months for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data, researchers will fill the app with tips and exercises that have worked for others with similar issues. Each patient’s app will then be tailored for self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on what others with similar conditions reported helpful and relieving. (4) Back And Neck Care Center looks forward to saying “There's an app for that!" Back And Neck Care Center knows that some of our Severna Park 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 may help themselves to optimal back pain relief.

Schedule a Severna Park chiropractic visit soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Back And Neck Care Center. Be ready to be involved in your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will be so happy that the pill or “something” was not presented to you once you are feeling better in terms of back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active part of the relief process.

Back And Neck Care Center invites back pain sufferers to participate in their own back pain relief recovery.  
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