Apple Country Chiropractic Cares for Neck Pain and Painful Cervical Spine Facet Joints
Zygapophyseal joints are also known as facet joints. Facet is a bit simpler to say than zygapophyseal, and Apple Country Chiropractic knows ‘facet’ is a whole lot easier to type than 'zygaopophyseal’! These joints are documented to be the source of cervical spine pain for many adults of all ages. Apple Country Chiropractic provides gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation to relieve neck pain like that produced by facet joint innervation.
ORIGINAL STUDY
Charting of normal volunteers’ responses to stimulation of cervical facet joints in the 1990s was foundational. Five volunteers stepped up to have their cervical spine facet joints stimulated to track where neck pain and arm pain were observed. Wow! These volunteers’ pain responses produced some much appreciated easy-to-read pain charts. (1) A follow up study of 10 actual cervical pain patients that compared their pain to that noted in the normal volunteers’ pain drawings to confirm the original charts from normal volunteers. (2) Apple Country Chiropractic sees verification of these normal volunteers’ pain reports in our Williamson neck pain patients! Decompression of spinal nerves with chiropractic helps.
NEW INFORMATION ON CERVICAL FACET JOINTS
Novel details from a current-day dissection project included new facts to the part cervical facet joints (aka zygapophyseal joints) have in neck pain and arm pain. At some levels, more than one medial branch was found. Direct facet joint branches were seen that originated from the dorsal root of the spinal nerve. These were separate from the medial branches in their direct path to the facet joint. Current day researchers wonder whether there is a more varied pattern of innervation than has previously been documented. (3) Apple Country Chiropractic appreciates the nuances of spine pain and the research that found them.
EXAM AND TREATMENT
Clinical observation, examination, and imaging results lead the diagnosis of neck pain given the complexity of cervical facet joints. (4) The cervical spine facet joint is innervated by mechanoreceptive (mechanical pressure-inducing) and nociceptive (nervous system related pain-inducing) nerve fibers engaging the dorsal root ganglia and end processes of the spinal cord. The central nervous system is complex and responsive to these painful stimuli, both pressure and nerve related. (5) That’s why your Williamson chiropractor takes such care in examining, diagnosing and treating Williamson neck pain. There are a multitude of factors to take into account! Our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management is soothing, non-thrust spinal manipulation of the cervical spine for Williamson neck pain relief.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Sean Delahunt on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effective, gentle treatment with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his gentleman patient with neck pain and tingling in his arm and hand.
Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic. Pick your word: zygapophyseal or facet! We are here to talk, diagnose, and treat them for neck and arm pain relief.
