Sitka Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer enjoy getting an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Not likely. New studies are showing that receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is done by chiropractors - may help such Sitka neck pain patients avert treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is here to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside Sitka back pain are primary causes of disability globally and here in Sitka. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, effective option for management of back and neck pain for quite a few such patients. Chiropractic is explained as care focused on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions with spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is explained as inhibiting back and neck pain in part by spine related mechanisms and potentially via peripheral mechanisms that regulate inflammatory pain responses. More research is called upon to determine just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We use spinal manipulation daily at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is demonstrated to decrease 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 higher in those who received care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation reduced the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is delivered by chiropractors in the US. (2) Your Sitka chiropractor uses 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, facilitates in relieving pain, a case report of a patient with neurofibromatosis who had headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually treated cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation along 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to provide him/her the tools and knowledge to attain such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Explaining to chronic nonspecific Sitka neck pain patients things they can do to help themselves and to understand their neck pain boosts 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 impactful. The combination dropped the patients’ pain-disability scores, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That is the goal of care for us at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka: less 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 treated cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease neck pain for two patients troubled by painful disc herniations.
Make your Sitka chiropractic appointment soon. To those Sitka neck pain sufferers not wanting too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the care you need!
