The West Des Moines Back and Neck Pain Relief Wave

For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves is calming. For West Des Moines back pain and neck pain patients, feeling the wave of healing pain relief can be the same if they understand it. For those who do not get that pain ebbs and flows while healing, the wave of healing can be frustrating. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa helps our patients understand the wave of healing, know the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate the pain relief they get.

DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN

Since back and neck pain experiences are filled with fluctuations of symptoms as they get better, researchers have worked on a way to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking 1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow. The biggest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25% of the patients in it rating their pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (10 worst pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% with a pain rating of 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients were those bothered more by pain than the others. (1) Instead of just labeling and rating pain, researchers had patients describe their pain using a visual picture scale about their pain intensity and symptomatology over 12 months. The patient responses were very similar in explaining the pain intensity but not as much for the symptoms and their characteristics. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa observes that everybody experiences pain in slightly different ways and that they find certain sorts of pain more annoying than others do. All of our West Des Moines chiropractic patients are distinctive!

THE HEALING “WAVE”

For a year, another study tracked 1124 neck pain patients who saw a chiropractor. Neck pain patients having “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over 12 months - and very minor pain remained relatively stable. Those who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – changed more in their pain patterns. (3) This is why we forewarn our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more like a wave than a straight line. While healing, pain ebbs and flows. Going away more than it comes is a solid sign of healing and pain relief. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa repeatedly tells our West Des Moines neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We will get there together!

CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS

Research such as explained here about the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers reflects the on-going need for them to have partners like their chiropractors as well as general practitioners to handle it, understand it, and care for it. A researcher described how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now had neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease a condition often seen in spinal discs around the spinal level that underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound for resolution of pain. (4) Again, pain relief is seldom sudden, but rather slow and steady with treatment, coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief gotten be it 50%, 70% or 90% as explained by the 50% Rule of Cox® Technic.

CONTACT Executive Chiropractic of Iowa

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. John Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares patient cases that were complicated and yet attained relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with time.

Schedule your West Des Moines chiropractic appointment soon. Together, we will aim for the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.

Executive Chiropractic of Iowa rides the wave of healing pain relief with our neck pain and back pain patients.  

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