Elgin Stress and Its Contribution to Back Pain
From firefighters to nurses, from children to older folks - and all of us in between - work-related stress is stressful. It influences our sense of pain and often elicits times of back pain and neck pain and back-related and neck-related pain. Connected Chiropractic is here to help squash the impact of work-related stress as much as possible. Elgin back pain and neck pain patients carry everything – including their stress – with them to Connected Chiropractic. You can, too! Together, we’ll handle work-stress and back and neck pain.
WORK-RELATED STRESS
Work-related stress messes with us. It reveals itself via pain. None of us is immune to stress, not even a kid! A kid’s work is being a kid and going to school on the way to adulthood. Along the way, kids have job-related stress. The pressures of grades and peers and news and learning problems get to them. Adolescents find themselves with low back pain, too. Depression, anxiety, coercion, uneasy relationships, extreme academic pressures, and unsatisfactory school lives may all set college students up for chronic low back pain. (1) 11% of firefighters reported moderate to extremely severe work-related stress. 40% reported musculoskeletal symptoms with back pain being the most mentioned. More stress related to more such symptoms. (2) Trash collectors reported back pain issues – upper back pain 89%, shoulder pain 81%, wrist/hand pain 79%, neck pain 68% - which stressed them out more. (3) Researchers found that psychological factors and fear-avoidance behaviors contributed to 11.8% of nursing care facility workers’ stating that chronic low back pain disrupted their work. (4) It’s an unusual person whose job is pure joy and stress-free. The rest of us find ways to cope. Your Elgin chiropractor is here for you.
CHIROPRACTIC FOR THE STRESSED
Chiropractors like yours at Connected Chiropractic see stressed-out patients. One study stated that more than 30% of chiropractic patients described themselves as moderately to severely stressed. Over 50% felt stress had a moderate or greater effect on their current pain. 71% said that it would be useful if their chiropractic care included stress-coping strategies. 44% were interested in participating in a class to boost their stress management skills. (5) Chiropractic care is available to all, regardless of age or profession. Your Elgin chiropractor is equipped to diagnose the physical cause of back pain and neck pain and to correlate any work-related stress that may be contributing to your Elgin back pain and neck pain. The discussion of how to more successfully cope with stress via lifestyle changes, exercise, etc., helps many Elgin back pain and neck pain patients recover with the Elgin chiropractic treatment plan.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Hayden on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who enjoys working with the most difficult, stressed-out back pain and neck pain patients with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management as part of the chiropractic treatment plan.
Schedule your Elgin chiropractic appointment. Connected Chiropractic welcomes everyone suffering with Elgin back pain and neck pain conditions. Together, we will devise a treatment plan for your relief.
