Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays
or returns after back surgery - sometimes called
persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as used at our West Des Moines
chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving
outcomes!
So have you undergone back surgery? Do you still
suffer with back pain…or has it come back? You’re not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will choose more
medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy,
etc. Others will seek non-medical options like spinal
manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the types
of
spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients
with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery determined
that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially
gentler non-thrust techniques –
85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic)
– instead of thrust techniques.
(1) A published study of 69
post-surgical patients handled with Cox® Technic recorded
that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the
patients reported more than 50% relief of pain. The mean
percent of relief was 71.6% at the end
of care and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued!
(2)
The frustration of back pain is reasonable. The frustration
of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa offers
Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…
and the frustration!Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with
Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the help his
patient felt with The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D!
LBP And Disc Degeneration
Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be
associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP)
sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured
vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It required
more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these
tests: gait
speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who
had vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with less
than 10 ng/mL which indicated severe LDD and LBP) are documented
to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis,
and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was more.
(4) Another report indicated that frailty status and physical
performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa asks: What’s
your vitamin D level? Time to check it!
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chiropractic appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa now.
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