FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF
Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that lingers or returns after back surgery - sometimes called
persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as utilized at our Baton Rouge chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving outcomes!
So have you had back surgery? Do you still experience back pain…or has it come back? You are not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will choose more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will seek non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of
spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners chose to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques –
85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques.
(1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients treated with Cox® Technic documented that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the patients attained more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% at the end of care and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued!
(2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was anticipated to get rid of it is even more frustrating. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers proposes Cox® Technic to reduce the pain…
and the frustration!Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief his patient experienced with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration
Higher vitamin D levels were found to be linked with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. Those low in vitamin D required more time in the gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with below 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are noted to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was elevated. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!
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