Have chronic low back pain? Try meditation
Published April 27, 2022 | Originally published on Keck School of Medicine of USC – Research News Millions of people suffer from chronic low back pain around the country. It’s a common condition that can keep people from doing the things they want to do, and it can have a negative impact on one’s overall…
Back Pain Is Processed In The Brain – Psychological Treatment Helps Change Perception of Pain
In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry, the authors found that when they worked with chronic back pain patients from a psychological position, it seemed to help. ~ Dr. Broussard Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Chronic Back Pain Published in Primary Care Journal Scan /…
Association Between Sleep Disturbance and Low Back Pain
After an earthquake in Japan, the authors of a study published in the journal SPINE, followed people who had sleep disturbances because of the natural disaster. They found that lower back pain was associated with sleep disturbances. The more sleep lost, the more the association with back pain. ~ Dr. Broussard Association Between Sleep Disturbance…
Medicare Beneficiaries Reduce Escalation of Medical Treatment With Chiropractic Care
If a Medicare beneficiary begins their back pain treatment using chiropractic type treatment (called spinal manipulative therapy), they have a much lower chance of being admitted to the hospital, having to go to the emergency department, having advanced imaging like MRIs and CAT scans,having to see a specialist, and having to have surgery, or spinal…
Cupping For Low Back Pain
Cupping is when a healthcare provider uses cups that provide suction to an area of the body. The effect of cupping includes promotion of the skin’s blood flow, changing the skin’s biomechanical properties, increasing pain thresholds, improving local anaerobic metabolism, reducing inflammation, and modulating the cellular immune system. ` Aboushanab, T. Cupping Therapy: An Overview…
Reduced Sleep Leads to Back Pain and Back Pain Leads to Lack of Sleep
When a patient begins care at my office, an important factor in my recommendations for the frequency of care, is if the symptoms interfere with their sleep. If symptoms interfere with sleep, I recommend frequent care in or der to improve the ability to sleep. If you can’t sleep, you can’t heal. ~ Dr. Broussard…
Virtual Reality for Chronic Back Pain Wins FDA Nod
— Immersive system incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy and other techniques by Judy George, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today November 16, 2021 An immersive virtual reality (VR) system incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and other methods was approved to help treat chronic lower back pain, the FDA announced Tuesday. “Millions of adults in the United States are living…
Lumbar Disc Degeneration Linked To Inflammation
In an article published in the journal Archives of Orthopedic Trauma and Surgery, by Mark J. Lambrechts who is an orthopedic resident in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at University Physicians, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, Dr. Lambrechts concluded that lumbar disc degeneration may be linked to not only older age, but also other comorbidities…
Exercise Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
Exercise and manual therapy both help people with chronic lower back pain, and in my view, the combination of both take the improvement up to a level that either one alone won’t do. ~ Dr. Broussard Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Sep 28;9(9):CD009790. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009790.pub2. Jill A Hayden 1, Jenna Ellis 1, Rachel Ogilvie 1,…
Can Spinal Manipulation and Acupuncture Fix A Herniated Disc?
In the journal World Journal of Clinical Cases, a case report was published documenting how they fixed a herniated disc using acupuncture and spinal manipulations that chiropractors use in their offices. ~ Dr. Broussard Retraction of lumbar disc herniation achieved by noninvasive techniques: A case report World J Clin Cases. 2021 Sep 26;9(27):8082-8089. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i27.8082.…