Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief
Back surgery isn’t always necessary to get rid of back pain. According to Adogwa et al, 0.8% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require? Pain relief. An understanding of their condition. Gentle treatment. A robust treatment plan. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has such a plan for suffererers Manchester post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-supervised, patient-involved chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY
Certain researchers in the medical profession want to abandon their descriptive phrase “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with pain after back surgery with a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who sought chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores fell from 43.8 to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among the treatments), 48% sustained their improvement, 42% had a recurrence, 10% were inaccessible for follow up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain patients noted numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to 2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse events were seen for any of the postsurgical patients in this review. The mean number of treatments was 14. Chiropractic care integrated the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain after back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All delivered care via protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or greater relief of pain at the end of active care was recorded for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments was 11. A 24-months’ follow up found that 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had continued pain relief of more than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not sought more care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them underwent chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 went through further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back pain following back surgery was attained for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Manchester back pain sufferers who have already experienced back surgery may welcome these outcomes for themselves! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is ready to help.
KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To commit to a plan, all involved must know what is going to happen to affect a change in pain. A study calculated the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal aspects of sufferers with lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was enlarged from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain decreased from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility recovered as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers stretching toward the floor). Passive straight leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Manchester chiropractic care.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Atiyeh on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d undergone back surgery and still experienced back pain.
Schedule your Manchester chiropractic appointment now. Back surgery isn’t the only choice for many with back pain. And for those who have previously undergone back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may ultimately produce the pain relief you desire.
