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Healthy News March 2023 Spinal Manipulation Relieves Back Pain After Back Surgery Take Your Vitamin D!

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Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that lingers or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as used at our Sitka chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still have back pain…or has it come back? You are not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will choose more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will pursue non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation used to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients managed with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients got more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka proposes Cox® Technic to reduce the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the relief his patient felt with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

image of Sitka low back pain and lumbar disc degeneration benefit from higher levels of vitamin D

TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. It required more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to do these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who had vitamin D deficiency (especially those with below 10 ng/mL which indicated severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. Add in smoking, high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, and the moderate to severe pain was elevated. (4) Another report indicated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka asks: What’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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