New York City Back Pain Relief Includes Self-Management
“Just give me something to stop the pain.” or “Just do something so I don’t hurt.” are just two comments Rosenberg Wellness Center and fellow back pain healthcare practitioners commonly hear. When in pain, we all just want it to stop in the easiest and fastest way possible. This isn’t 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. Rosenberg Wellness Center encourages our New York City 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 New York City chiropractic patients have experienced this.
SELF-MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
Remarkably up to 25% of back pain patients in a new study were not actively engaged in their spine care treatment plan. Research is filled with reports emphasizing the significance of patient-involvement in 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 made a special plan to address these issues and improve 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 reduce disability and work absenteeism was cost effective though no one certain intervention stood out over others. (2) Like these researchers, Rosenberg Wellness Center tries to do anything possible to help our New York City back pain and neck pain patients!
SPINE EXERCISES AND EMS
This may be a unique helpful intervention for certain patients: whole-body electromyostimulation. It dropped nonspecific chronic low back pain equally as well as back-strengthening exercise protocols. When fear of movement and functional limitations due to back pain play a role, whole body electrical stimulation improved patients’ strength and stabilization in a timely fashion, decreasing pain intensity and enhancing trunk flexors. (3) Rosenberg Wellness Center shares such options to help our patients.
SELF-MANAGEMENT APP
Have you heard “There is an app for that!”? Rosenberg Wellness Center is sure you have! Not surprising45 in today’s app-crazy world that there is an app in development to help you keep track of self-management tasks like exercise, sleep, etc. For the “selfBACK” app, researchers are currently gathering data on the usefulness of various interventions at various times for nonspecific low back pain. From this research data, researchers will fill the app with tips and exercises that have worked for others with similar issues. Each patient’s app will then be customized for self-management of back pain and other musculoskeletal issues based on what others with similar conditions reported helpful and relieving. (4) Rosenberg Wellness Center looks forward to saying “There's an app for that!" Rosenberg Wellness Center knows that some of our New York City 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 the best back pain relief possible.
Schedule a New York City chiropractic appointment soon to begin care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management at Rosenberg Wellness Center. Be ready to be involved in your back pain treatment plan for back pain relief. You will 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.
