Pflugerville Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain

Smoking. We know it’s bad. Smoking is bad. The body doesn’t like it. Your spine really doesn’t like it! Pflugerville Wellness Center likes your spine and offers Pflugerville chiropractic care for your spine. You love your spine or at least need it! Be good to your spine and keep it healthy! Let Pflugerville Wellness Center care for your spine when it requires some special attention to get back to its healthy state. Step one toward health for a Pflugerville smoker suffering with back pain may necessitate a chiropractic treatment plan that includes a plan to quit smoking.

WHO SMOKES?

Researchers are inquisitive about issues linked to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who went through back surgery, they discovered 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 suffer with coronary artery disease were more liable 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 related to smoking status. Interestingly though, smoking status did not affect the disability status at a year after back surgery. (1) Modifying such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Pflugerville Wellness Center would encourage a Pflugerville smoker who has Pflugerville back pain create a plan to stop smoking.

SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY

The body knows what’s good for it…and what is not. Smoking isn’t. Examining 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is most strongly associated with spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain ensued. Active smoking is linked to pain in every part of the body. The spine and head withstand the brunt of the painful influence though. If a smoker doesn’t like pain, you will want to think about stop smoking! (2) Pflugerville Wellness Center is with you to support your effort to quit smoking when you’re ready.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Silke Laub of chiropractic’s contribution to palliative care of a cancer patient with 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 Pflugerville chiropractic visit with Pflugerville Wellness Center. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is really troublesome to the spine. Being the Pflugerville back pain specialist, your Pflugerville chiropractor is here to relieve back pain and help any efforts you decide to try to reduce your back pain.