Ashburn and Herndon Smoking Increases Body Pain Particularly Spine Pain
Smoking. We know how bad it is. Smoking is bad. The body doesn’t like it. Your spine hates it! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn likes your spine and offers Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care for your spine. You love your spine or at least need it! Do what you can to keep your spine healthy. Let Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn care for your spine when it needs a little help to get back to its healthy state. Step one toward health for a Ashburn and Herndon smoker suffering with back pain may necessitate a chiropractic treatment plan that includes a plan to quit smoking.
WHO SMOKES?
Researchers are curious about factors related to smoking. In a review of 7547 patients who underwent back surgery, they found that 18% were smokers. The researchers observed 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 presented initially 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 did not affect the disability status at a year after back surgery. (1) Altering such risk factors work just as well for smokers and nonsmokers luckily. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn would help a Ashburn and Herndon smoker who has Ashburn and Herndon back pain establish a plan to stop smoking.
SMOKING’S EFFECTS ON THE BODY
The body gets what is good for it…and what is not. Smoking is not. Studying 2307 smokers and non-smokers, researchers discovered that smoking is most strongly associated with spine pain. Headache, trunk pain and limb pain followed. 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’ll want to consider stop smoking! (2) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is with you to support your effort to quit smoking when you’re ready.
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Schedule your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Smoking is a risk factor for more pain. Smoking is very bothersome to the spine. Being the Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialist, your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor is here to relieve back pain and help any efforts you decide to try to decrease your back pain.
