West Des Moines Chiropractic Care Helps Back Pain After Back Surgery Surgery and Integrates Extension Exercise into the Treatment Plan

Most West Des Moines back pain patients choose back surgery expecting West Des Moines back pain relief. That expectation is not always met. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is told by West Des Moines back surgery patients and reads it in the spine literature.  49-58% relief of pain for sciatica (leg pain) because of a disc herniation is common. (1) Post-surgical back pain patients may discover that they experience back pain after West Des Moines back surgery. What are some choices? Spinal manipulation and exercise is one such option. The American College of Physicians and American Pain Society suggest spinal manipulation for low back pain relief. (2) One patient experienced 89% improvement with 12 spinal manipulation sessions plus exercise. (3) A study of 69 post-surgical back pain patients treated with Cox® Technic - like they are at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa – discovered that 81% of patients exhibited at least 50% reduction of pain at the end of 3 months of care. 78.6% of those patients had persistent pain relief at 24 months follow up. (4) West Des Moines chiropractic relief for post-surgical back pain patients often meets a patient’s expectation of back pain relief. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa invites you or a suffering friend or family member to visit today.

Listen to this PODCAST on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which Dr. David Atiyeh describes a patient who had undergone back surgery expecting pain relief and post-surgically found pain relief with chiropractic Cox® Technic care.

West Des Moines back pain sufferers frequently get relief by flexing forward just a bit, not flexing backward into extension. (Read the SPINE article May 2018 on our website about why!) Extension is not all bad. A healthy spine can extend. A healthy spine needs strong back muscles to support all its motions. Strengthening those extensor muscles to stop West Des Moines back pain is important. Research shows that lumbar spine extension weakness and extensor muscle deconditioning are found in West Des Moines chiropractic patients with chronic low back pain. (5) Why? Back muscles degenerate in back pain sufferers like spinal discs degenerate. (6) Add extension exercises into your day when your West Des Moines chiropractor tells you it is appropriate. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa can help!

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