Chiropractic Solutions Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief
Back surgery isn’t always required to relieve back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that less than 1% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require? Pain relief. An understanding of their condition. Gentle treatment. A sound treatment plan. Chiropractic Solutions has such a plan for San Jose 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 abandon 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 sought 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 dropped from 43.8 to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction amid the treatments), 48% retained their improvement, 42% experienced a recurrence, 10% were inaccessible 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 decrease 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 included the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain following back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All delivered care via 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 sought further care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them underwent 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 realized for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) San Jose back pain sufferers who have already experienced back surgery may appreciate these outcomes for themselves! Chiropractic Solutions is ready to help.
UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To stick to a plan, all involved must be aware of what is going to happen to bring about pain relief. A study assessed the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal aspects of patients 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 recovered as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers reaching for the floor). Passive straight leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe San Jose 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 had back pain.
Make your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. Back surgery isn’t the only option for many with back pain. And for those who have already had back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may ultimately deliver the pain relief you desire.
