December 2023 Healthy News from Apple Country Chiropractic Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
Joy! Joy! Joy! That’s this time of year…for most of us. For some it can be a pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic care at our Williamson chiropractic clinic is gentle, effective, and proven to be relieving in a reasonably brief timeframe. Non-specific neck pain patients noted that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation treatment. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management provides pain-relieving results. A patient with neck pain due to narrowing of the cervical spine foramen and radiating arm pain due to a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported reduced pain and better function in 10 treatments over a month. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain stated that he had less pain (which dropped from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits over 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published papers on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, depicted to be a safe and less painful method to lessen chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy lowers the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo care ‘forever’. A new study documented that chiropractors do not recommend continued care except for certain types of neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were proposed to continue care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest indicator for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Williamson neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk in our door every day! We are prepared to help each one find a little more JOY of the season!
Williamson CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Williamson pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it when they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain reduction and better strength of cervical spine flexor, extensor and scapular muscles. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study tested and discovered that isometric exercises significantly lessened neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are simple exercises that do not take long to do or to have a beneficial effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure you have your next Williamson chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
Happy and joy-filled holidays to you and yours from Apple Country Chiropractic!