The Baton Rouge Back and Neck Pain Relief Wave

For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves is calming. For Baton Rouge back pain and neck pain patients, experiencing the wave of relief from pain can be the same if they are aware of it. For those who don’t understand that pain will come and go while healing, the wave of healing can be frustrating. Spine & Sports Rehab Center helps our patients appreciate the wave of healing, know the research behind our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate the pain relief they experience.

DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN

Since back and neck pain experiences are filled with fluctuations of symptoms as they heal, researchers tried to come up with a method to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking 1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow. The biggest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25% of the patients in it reporting pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (0 no pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% reporting pain at a 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients were those disturbed more by pain than the others. (1) Instead of just defining and rating pain, researchers had patients describe their pain using a visual picture scale about their pain intensity and symptomatology over a year. The patient responses were quite similar in explaining the pain intensity but not so much for the symptoms and their characteristics. (2) Spine & Sports Rehab Center observes that everybody experiences pain in slightly different ways and that they find certain types of pain more annoying than others do. All of our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients are distinctive!

THE HEALING “WAVE”

For a year, another study tracked 1124 neck pain patients seeing a chiropractor. Neck pain patients having “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over 12 months - and very minor pain remained relatively stable. Those who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – shifted more in their pain patterns. (3) This is why we tell our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more like a wave than a straight line. While healing, pain comes and goes. Going away more than it comes is a solid sign of healing and pain relief. Spine & Sports Rehab Center repeatedly tells our Baton Rouge neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We’ll get there together!

CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS

Research such as described here regarding the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers reflects the on-going need for them to have team members like their chiropractors along with general practitioners to handle it, understand it, and care for it. One researcher explained how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now experienced neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease a condition often seen in spinal discs around the spinal level that underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound for pain relief. (4) Again, pain relief is seldom sudden, but rather slow and steady with treatment, coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief attained be it 50%, 70% or 90% as supported by the 50% Rule of Cox® Technic.

CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab Center

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. John Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents patient cases that were difficultcomplex and yet attained relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with time.

Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment now. Together, we will work toward the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.

Spine & Sports Rehab Center rides the wave of healing pain relief with our back pain and neck pain patients.  

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