Healthy News May 2020

Continued Montreal chiropractic care helps keep back pain away.

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

Patients often ask how long they have to come for chiropractic care at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. In the end, their relief dictates this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the Montreal chiropractor. For others, when the pain is . The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it makes sense to stop care. However, there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and keeps you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular schedule (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not helps. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of painful day in acute episodes and improved the duration of pain-free days for back pain sufferers who have 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 simply go away. The bruise is now a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is definitely pleasant, and continued chiropractic care via a Montreal chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients ask for maintenance care after suffering with several episodes of Montreal back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid starting over. Whichever patient type you are, Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is the Montreal chiropractic care partner to see!

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

Montreal 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 making better pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as beneficial. (2) Those are positive outcomes! Unfortunately, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% experienced 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 incorporating spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic 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 discuss the conservative approach to dealing with Montreal back pain.

CONTACT Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic

Schedule your next Montreal chiropractic appointment now with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic is your spine care and back pain management partner!