“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something
so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation and
fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear frequently. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the simplest and fastest 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 can see it for what it is.
Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation encourages
our Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge chiropractic patients have lived this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Amazingly up to 25% of back pain patients in
a new study weren’t actively involved in their
spine care treatment plan. Research is filled with papers
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 mix of approaches to lessen
disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular
intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation
tries to do whatever it takes to help our Baton Rouge
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 because
of back pain are a part of the problem, whole body
electrical stimulation improved patients’
strength and stabilization in a timely fashion, dropping
pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation
shares such alternatives to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Ever heard the saying “There’s
an app for that!”? Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation is certain you have! Not
alarming in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in development to help you manage self-management
tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently
gathering data on the effectiveness of
various interventions at baseline, 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 9 months
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 personalized for
self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based upon others with similar conditions found helpful and
relieving. (4) Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation looks forward to saying “There is an app for
that!" Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation knows that some of our Baton Rouge back pain
patients will love this!
CONTACT Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jack Stern on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he outlines how
back pain patients can best help themselves to optimal back pain
relief.
Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic visit
soon to start with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management at Capitol Spine & Rehabilitation. Be ready to be involved in your
back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will 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.