March 2023 Healthy News from Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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 comes back after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is proving effective. And Cox® Technic as offered at our Manchester chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-alleviating outcomes! So have you had back surgery? Do you still have 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 opt for more medical options 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 kinds of spinal manipulation applied 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 got 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 get rid of it is even more frustrating. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries extends 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 details the help his patient experienced 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 calculated vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It took more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to do these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with below 10 ng/mL which marked 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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