Smoking. We know it’s bad. Smoking is
bad. The body doesn’t like it. Your spine really
doesn’t like it! Soft Health and Healing Clinic loves
your spine and offers Brooks chiropractic care for your spine. You love
your spine or at least need it! Be good
to your spine and keep it healthy!
Let Soft Health and Healing Clinic care for your spine when it requires
some special attention to re-discover its
healthy state. Step one toward health for a
Brooks smoker suffering with back pain may require
a chiropractic treatment plan that incorporates a plan to quit
smoking.
WHO SMOKES?
Researchers are inquisitive about factors
linked to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who underwent back surgery, they found
that 18% were smokers. The researchers stated that compared to the non-smokers, the smokers were younger, male,
nondiabetic, and nonobese. Patients in this group who have coronary artery disease were more likely to be
smokers. Smokers who underwent lumbar spine back surgery came to their healthcare provider more with leg pain than
back pain and disability. Their employment, insurance/uninsured, and education
status were also linked to smoking status. Fascinatingly
though, smoking status didn’t influence the
disability status one year after back surgery. (1) Altering
such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers
luckily. Soft Health and Healing Clinic would encourage a Brooks
smoker dealing with Brooks back pain to stop smoking.
SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY
The body knows what’s good for it…and what’s not. Smoking is not. Examining 2307
smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is greatly connected to spine pain. Headache,
trunk pain and limb pain ensued. Active smoking is associated
with pain in every part of the body. The spine and head withstand
the brunt of the painful influence though. If a smoker
does not like pain, you’ll want to consider stop smoking! (2) Soft Health and Healing Clinic is with you to back
your attempt to quit smoking when you’re
ready.
CONTACT Soft Health and Healing Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Silke Laub of chiropractic’s contribution to palliative care of a patient
with cancer who has neuropathic pain due to chemotherapy. Dr. Michael
Johnson of The Back Doctors Podcast highlighted the supportive
side of chiropractic care and Cox® Technic for patients with spine
related pain.
Schedule your next Brooks chiropractic visit
with Soft Health and Healing Clinic. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is very
bothersome to the spine. Being the Brooks back
pain specialist, your Brooks chiropractor is here to relieve
back pain and help any means you choose
to decrease your back pain.