Augusta Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer want to get an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Nope! New studies are explaining how receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is done by chiropractors - may help such Augusta neck pain patients avert treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is here to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside Augusta back pain are leading causes of disability globally and here in Augusta. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, effective option for management of back and neck pain for many sufferers. Chiropractic is explained as care centered on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions via spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is described as hindering back and neck pain in part by spine related mechanisms and possibly via peripheral mechanisms that regulate inflammatory pain responses. More research is recommended to determine just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We utilize spinal manipulation daily at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is shown to reduce the risk of treatment escalation. 42% of neck pain patients seeking relief find that their treatment is heightened to include care like imaging, injection, emergency room visit, or surgery. Such risk was 2.38 times greater in those who got care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation decreased the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is done by chiropractors in the United States. (2) Your Augusta chiropractor delivers specialized, research-based, safe, and gentle spinal manipulation for neck pain relief.
SPECIFIC FORM OF DOCUMENTED SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN RELIEF
As an example of how a specific form of spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic flexion distraction, helps relieve pain, a patient case about a patient with neurofibromatosis who experienced headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually treated cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation together with myofascial release, patient education about adapting her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care reduced her neck and thoracic spine pain as well as headache frequency. (3) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to give him/her the tools and knowledge to get such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Showing chronic nonspecific Augusta neck pain patients things they can do to help themselves and to understand their neck pain enriches their outcomes. A study comparing therapeutic exercise alone to therapeutic exercise plus pain neuroscience education to assist their understanding of their condition found that the combination was more helpful. The combination dropped the patients’ pain-disability indices, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That is the goal of care for us at Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic: reduced pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses his use of manually delivered cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease neck pain for two patients troubled by painful disc herniations.
Make your Augusta chiropractic appointment soon. To those Augusta neck pain sufferers not wanting too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the care you need!
