The Manchester Back and Neck Pain Relief Wave

For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves is calming. For Manchester neck pain and back pain patients, experiencing the wave of healing pain relief can be the same if they are aware of it. For those who do not understand that pain ebbs and flows while healing, the wave of healing can be upsetting. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries helps our patients appreciate the wave of healing, recognize the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate the pain relief they experience.

DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN

Since back and neck pain experiences are complete with fluctuations of symptoms as they get better, researchers tried to come up with a method to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking 1208 neck pain patients. They came up with 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% reporting pain at a 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients were those disturbed 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries observes that everybody senses pain in somewhat different ways and that they find certain types of pain more annoying than others do. All of our Manchester 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 – had greater changes in their pain patterns. (3) This is the reason we tell our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more wavelike than a straight line. While healing, pain ebbs and flows. Going away more than it comes is a solid signal of healing and pain relief. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries repeatedly tells our Manchester 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 team members like their chiropractors along with general practitioners to manage it, understand it, and care for it. A researcher described how a patient who had 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 above and below a 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 rarely sudden, but rather slow and steady with treatment, coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief attained be it 50%, 70% or 90% as explained by the 50% Rule of Cox® Technic.

CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries

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

Schedule your Manchester chiropractic appointment today. Together, we will aim for the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.

Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries rides the wave of healing pain relief with our neck pain and back pain patients.  

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