Healthy News May 2020

Continued Toronto chiropractic care fosters back pain relief.

WHY SEE YOUR CHIROPRACTOR AFTER THE PAIN IS GONE? TO KEEP IT GONE!

Patients often ask how long they have to visit for chiropractic care at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Ultimately, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is figured out together, patient and the Toronto chiropractor. For others, when the pain is gone, they are gone. The patients make the decision themselves. And when there is no pain, it makes sense to stop care. Only there may be a special factor to consider: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing the things you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis (aka “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care decreased the number of painful day in acute episodes and increased the duration of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not often cured. It is like a bruise on an apple. It won’t just disappear. The bruise becomes a more susceptible part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is definitely pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Toronto chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients ask for maintenance care after a few episodes of Toronto back pain. Some set up a schedule right away to avoid waiting for the pain and having to begin again. Whichever patient type you are, Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is the Toronto chiropractic care partner to see!

Toronto exercise helps patients with non-specific back pain and pre-back surgery patients though it is not often prescribed as much as opioids.

Toronto CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain

A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with varying low, moderate and high intensity exercise during a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Sadly, in the year prior to back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% had at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% received at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthy pre-back surgery efforts. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is ready to do this with you!

Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to dealing with Toronto back pain.

CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre

Schedule your next Toronto chiropractic appointment now with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is your spine care and back pain management partner!