December 2023 Healthy News from Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
As much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it’s a pain in the neck. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is here to help! Chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is calm, effective, and proven to be relieving in a fairly brief timeframe. Non-specific neck pain patients noted that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation session. (1) Even for cases that more difficult (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management delivers pain-relieving outcomes. One patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported reduced pain and better function in 10 treatments over a month. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain reported reduced pain (which fell from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits in 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published studies on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, described as a safe and less painful method to ease chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy lowers the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo care ‘forever’. A recent study stated that chiropractors do not recommend continued care apart from certain neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were recommended for care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest indicator for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Baton Rouge neck pain whether it’s acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers every day! We are ready to help each one find a little more JOY of the season!
Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Baton Rouge pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it when they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program proved effective for non-specific neck pain reduction and better strength of cervical spine flexor and extensor muscles as well as scapular. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study found that isometric exercises significantly reduced neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are straightforward exercises that do not take long to do or to have a positive effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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Happy and joy-filled holidays to you and yours from Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers!