FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF
Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays or comes back after back surgery - sometimes called
persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is proving effective. And Cox® Technic as used at our Montreal chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving outcomes!
So have you had back surgery? Do you still experience 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 options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of
spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery concluded that spinal manipulation practitioners chose 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 treated with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients reported more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done 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. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic offers 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 relief his patient felt with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration
Higher vitamin D levels were found 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 who had vitamin D deficiency (especially those with less than 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 more. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic asks: What’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!
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