March 2023 Healthy News from Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF

Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that lingers or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is proving effective. And Cox® Technic as offered at our West Des Moines chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still suffer with back pain…or has it come back? You are not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will choose more medical selections like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will seek non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A recent meta-analysis of published data on the types of spinal manipulation used to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients handled with Cox® Technic documented that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients attained 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 understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa proposes 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 relief his patient got with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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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 analyzed vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. Those low in vitamin D took more time in the gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (especially those with below 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are noted 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 increased. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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