Apple Country Chiropractic 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% need? Pain relief. Reassurance and knowledge of their condition. Gentle treatment. A solid treatment plan. Apple Country Chiropractic has such a plan for Williamson post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) patients 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 discard 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 pursued chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 43.8 to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction amid the treatments), 48% maintained their improvement, 42% had a recurrence, 10% were not available 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 noted 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 reported back pain following back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All followed protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or more 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. At 2 years follow up, 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had continued pain relief greater than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not pursued further care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 had 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) Williamson back pain sufferers who have already undergone back surgery may appreciate these outcomes for themselves! Apple Country Chiropractic is ready to help.
KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To commit to a plan, all involved must know what is going to happen to bring about pain relief. A study measured 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 increased from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain reduced from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility improved as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers stretching toward the floor). Passive straight leg raise improved from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Williamson 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 illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d already had back surgery and still experienced back pain.
Make your Williamson chiropractic appointment soon. Back surgery is not the only choice for many with back pain. And for those who have already undergone back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may finally deliver the pain relief you want.
