Healthy News - July 2018

What more fun is there on a hot, Brooks summer day than to delight in a cool-water water ride or water slide? Most all of us can all relate to that! Some Brooks folks will do the sliding and riding, and some will observe. Which is safer? Viewing from afar! Water slides and rides may go from fun to pain if the tailbone gets damaged. And it does! A new research report describes that water ride related tailbone pain isn’t stated in the medical literature before, but Soft Health and Healing Clinic knows it is found in this Brooks chiropractic practice’s patient population. The tailbone is properly named the coccyx, the lowest section of the spine, and tailbone injury may develop into coccygeal instability and pain. (1) Just as with the rest of the spine, the coccyx has discs and dorsal root ganglia, too. DRG stimulation eases pain and increases function without any complications for patients with chronic coccydynia (coccyx pain). (2) Usual care of coccyx pain is physical therapy and medication treatment. Adding manipulation reduced pain and disability for chronic coccydynia patients (who sometimes have low back pain and leg pain, too) in just 3 treatments. (3) If Brooks summer’s water fun hurts you, go to your Brooks chiropractor! Soft Health and Healing Clinic’s gentle manipulation may calm the coccyx’s discs and DRGs and lessen your Brooks tailbone pain.

The last thing a Brooks expectant mother wants to feel is pain, and the very last thing she wants is to take medication or undergo medical procedures! Brooks chiropractic spinal manipulation with Cox® Technic is shown to help relieve pregnancy-related back pain and leg pain. (4) For women who experience lumbopelvic pain during Brooks pregnancy, acupuncture reportedly helps. It is safe and beneficial for lessening pain and improving her quality of life while pregnant. 89% of women in one study reported clinically meaningful symptom reduction. (5) Your Brooks chiropractor is here to lessen pregnancy-related Brooks back pain and pelvic pain.

Listen in to this PODCAST with Dr. Amelia Pappas on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about pregnancy-related Brooks back pain and pelvic pain and how Cox® Technic helps reduce that pain.

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Thank you for counting on on your Brooks chiropractor to manage of your spine’s health.