Williamson Chiropractic Relief for Back Pain After Surgery

March 28, 2017

Back surgery. It’s an option some choose for back pain relief. About 50% of them report relief at one year later. What then? Another back surgery? More pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Apple Country Chiropractic would add chiropractic care as a worthwhile option before back surgery, and Apple Country Chiropractic welcomes back pain patients to the Williamson back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and still have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical approach to alleviate Williamson spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that offers much evidence-based research as its foundation with documented clinical outcomes of alleviating and controlling back pain. Cox Technic satisfies Williamson back pain patients seeking relief. Apple Country Chiropractic offers it to their Williamson back pain patients if they find themselves with post-surgical continued pain or the condition diagnosis of “failed back surgery syndrome” (FBSS).

Post Surgical Continued Pain Diagnosis

A FBSS diagnosis is certainly not one a post-surgical back pain patient wants to ponder let alone experience. It’s a possibility though. Often another surgery isn’t the desired answer for these types of back pain sufferers. Often such a patient is transferred to physical therapy, recommended medications or injections, even implanted with a spine stimulator. Often such a patient welcomes options beyond those medical approaches. Sometimes such a patient wishes he or she had tried something else before back surgery. Apple Country Chiropractic stands ready with its Williamson chiropractic care to assist at any stage of the process of back pain and its relief.

Chiropractic Care for FBSS

Low back pain care with chiropractic is shown to be equally effective as physical therapy with no serious adverse side-effects. This review report further states that “the decision to seek or to refer patients for chiropractic care should be based on patient preference and values.” (1) That is what evidence-based medicine is all about: seek out the best evidence from the research, seek care from the back pain specialist who is clinically proficient, and meet patient expectations and preferences. That’s what chiropractic research continues to do: produce the research and publish the outcomes for the public to base its decision on what is best for dealing with their back pain.

Decision Making

How does one make that decision though? When a surgeon proposes surgery or a pain medicine doctor offers medication or a physical therapist offers exercise or a chiropractor offers spinal manipulation in one form or another, how does the relief-seeking Williamson back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers share with patients with impartial information about the potential benefits and risks of the options. (2) Everyone knows though that when the pain is intense, the first offer of relief is really appealing. Being human, the healthcare provider seeing a patient in pain wants to help that back pain patient get rid of the pain fast, too. Apple Country Chiropractic certainly does. Our Williamson back pain sufferers are grateful when they get relief after care.

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So Apple Country Chiropractic wants to share recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Williamson back pain patients: spinal manipulation relief for post-surgical continued pain patients and for post-implanted and currently wearing spinal stimulator patients. A study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients, 80% of patients demonstrated more than 50% relief of pain at the end of care (3 months) in a mean of 49 days and 11 visits, and 78.6% reported 50% relief of pain at 24 months follow up. The amount of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers state that no adverse effects from chiropractic manipulation or mobilization treatment applied to patients who have implanted spine stimulators for pain control are noted in their findings. (4) Finally, a post-surgical patient responds well to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, reporting pain dropping from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic notices that a combination approach for pain relief is often best for our Williamson chiropractic patients.

Every Williamson chiropractic patient is matched with his or her very own, personalized treatment plan that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, cooperation with fellow healthcare colleagues as needed, presentation of the latest in clinical outcomes of care options available, and standing by you, our Williamson post-surgical continued back pain patient, through it all.

Schedule a Williamson chiropractic visit today.

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