Toronto Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain
Smoking. We know it’s bad. Smoking is bad. The body doesn’t like it. Your spine dislikes it! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre loves your spine and offers Toronto chiropractic care for your spine. You love your spine or at least require it! Keep your spine healthy! Let Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre take care of your spine when it requires some special attention to re-discover its healthy state. Step one toward health for a Toronto smoker suffering with back pain may necessitate a chiropractic treatment plan that incorporates a plan to quit smoking.
WHO SMOKES?
Researchers are curious about issues related to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who underwent back surgery, they found that 18% were smokers. The researchers noted 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 likely to be smokers. Smokers who underwent lumbar spine back surgery came to their healthcare provider more with leg pain than back pain and disability. Their employment, insurance/uninsured, and education status were also linked to smoking status. Fascinatingly though, smoking status didn’t affect the disability status one year after back surgery. (1) Modifying such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre would help a Toronto smoker dealing with Toronto back pain to stop smoking.
SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY
The body knows what’s good for it…and what’s not. Smoking is not. Studying 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is greatly associated with spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain ensued. Active smoking is linked to pain in every part of the body. The spine and head withstand the brunt of the painful influence though. If a smoker doesn’t like pain, you will want to think about stop smoking! (2) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is with you to support your attempt to stop smoking when you’re 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 due 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 Toronto chiropractic visit with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is really bothersome to the spine. Being the Toronto back pain specialist, your Toronto chiropractor is here to relieve back pain and support any efforts you choose to reduce your back pain.
