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Montreal Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management

“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I stop hurting.” are just two comments Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners hear all the time. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the least effort required and fastest 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 have to see it for what it is. Temporary. Unwelcome. Disruptive. But manageable many times when engaged. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic encourages our Montreal 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 Montreal chiropractic patients have experienced this.

SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS

Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study weren’t actively involved in their spine care treatment plan. Research is ripe with studies highlighting the significance of patient-engagement with treatment of spine pain. What kept such patients involved? 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 address 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 found that a mix of approaches to drop disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one particular intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic tries to do whatever it takes to help our Montreal back pain and neck pain patients!

SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS

This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It reduced nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations because of back pain play a role, whole body electrical stimulation improved patients’ strength and stabilization in a timely fashion, reducing pain intensity and improving trunk flexors. (3) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic shares such alternatives to help our patients.

SELF-MANAGEMENT APP

Ever heard the saying “There is an app for that!”? Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is certain you have! Not alarming in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in the works to help you keep track of self-management tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are now 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 will 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) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic looks forward to saying “There is an app for that!" Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic knows that some of our Montreal 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 shares how back pain patients may help themselves to optimal back pain relief.

Schedule a Montreal chiropractic visit soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. Be ready to be involved in your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You’ll be so happy that the pill or “something” was not available once you are feeling better regarding back pain relief and mental happiness that you were an active part of the relief process.

Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic calls on back pain sufferers to participate in their own back pain relief recovery.  
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