West Des Moines Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer look forward to getting an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Not likely. New studies are showing that receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is done by chiropractors - may help such West Des Moines neck pain patients avoid treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is ready to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside West Des Moines back pain are leading causes of disability around the world and here in West Des Moines. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, helpful option for management of back and neck pain for quite a few such patients. Chiropractic is described as care focused on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions with spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is described as hindering back and neck pain partly by spine related mechanisms and possibly via peripheral mechanisms that control inflammatory pain responses. More research is recommended to figure out just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We use spinal manipulation every day at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is shown to reduce the risk of treatment escalation. 42% of neck pain patients seeking relief find that their treatment is escalated to include care like imaging, injection, emergency room visit, or surgery. Such risk was 2.38 times higher in those who received care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation decreased the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is delivered by chiropractors in the US. (2) Your West Des Moines chiropractor delivers specialized, research-based, safe, and gentle spinal manipulation for neck pain relief.
SPECIFIC FORM OF DOCUMENTED SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN RELIEF
As an example of how a specific form of spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic flexion distraction, helps relieve pain, a patient case about a patient with neurofibromatosis who had headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually treated cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with myofascial release, patient education about modifying her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care reduced her neck and thoracic spine pain as well as headache frequency. (3) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to provide him/her the tools and understanding to get such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Giving chronic nonspecific West Des Moines neck pain patients things they can do to help themselves and to understand their neck pain enhances their outcomes. A study comparing therapeutic exercise alone to therapeutic exercise plus pain neuroscience education to help them understand their condition found that the combination was more helpful. The combination dropped the patients’ pain-disability indices, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That’s the goal of care for us at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa: reduced pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of manually treated cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease neck pain for a couple of patients troubled by painful disc herniations.
Set up your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment now. To those West Des Moines neck pain sufferers not desiring too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the care you need!
