Can Chiropractic Relieve Neck Pain? Baton Rouge Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Treatment Helps Ease Neck and Arm Pain.

The spine. Its five sections form one spine, so it’s logical that treating one area might affect another. So interesting. So recently published! Spine & Sports Rehab Center loves new research, and this new research describes how treating the thoracic spine beneficially affects the status of the cervical spine. Spine & Sports Rehab Center is all for the two-for-one effect for spinal pain decrease! When problems of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are concerned, Baton Rouge neck pain patients will be, too.

CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Cervical spine pain may involve neck pain as well as radiculopathy or cervical radicular pain down the arm. Cervical spine related diseases like this may stimulate other issues, too. For example, patients with cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more likelihood of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients are likely to have a history of a cardiovascular event and exhibit C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another interesting study of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease involving cervical spinal cord compression – discovered that patients evaluated the quality of their care based on satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, reiterate the importance of telling patients what to expect to boost satisfaction: At 12 months following surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be improved (37%), may remain the same (55%), or may decline (7%). (2) Honesty is the best policy in life and in doctor-patient relationships. Spine & Sports Rehab Center shares its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected on day one. (ex: “Some days will be nicer than others as you heal. Healing happens when the good days start to exceed the poor ones.”) Baton Rouge chiropractic care including gentle chiropractic adjusting – like with Cox® Technic – improves the odds of good days and more good days!

THORACIC SPINE ADJUSTING HELPS CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Chiropractic treatment of the thoracic spine can be quite gentle and pain-relieving not just for the thoracic spine but also the cervical spine. Thoracic spine thrust adjusting has been demonstrated to improve cervical spine pain and enhance disability. A recent article tells of improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who have cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most stated by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Adjacent cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Amazing! There is that positive two-for-one effect again.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Deveau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who using with Cox® Technic improved the neck and arm pain – as well as sleep - for a patient. There are a lot of 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!

Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment at Spine & Sports Rehab Center for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement with Baton Rouge chiropractic care! Your chiropractor delights in caring for your spine and preserving the health of all its 5 sections.

Spine & Sports Rehab Center values the whole spine and that treating one section of the spine (thoracic) eases pain in another (cervical)! 
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