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Can Chiropractic Relieve Neck Pain? Sitka Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Treatment Helps Ease Neck and Arm Pain.

The spine. Its five sections constitutes one spine, so it’s logical that treating one section might affect another. So interesting. So newly published! Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka likes new research, and this new research suggests that treating the thoracic spine positively affects the status of the cervical spine. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is all for the two-for-one effect for spinal pain reduction! When issues of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are concerned, Sitka neck pain patients will be, too.

CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Cervical spine pain may involve neck pain as well as radiculopathy or cervical radicular pain down the arm. Such diseases of the cervical spine may trigger other issues, too. For example, patients with cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more likelihood of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients tend to have a history of a cardiovascular event and show C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another intriguing report of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease concerning cervical spinal cord compression – found that patient evaluation of the quality of care they received comes down to satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, emphasize the significance of telling patients what they can expect to enhance satisfaction: At 12 months following surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be improved (37%), may stay the same (55%), or may deteriorate (7%). (2) Honesty is the best way in life and in doctor-patient interactions. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka presents its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected upfront. (ex: “Some days will be nicer than others as you heal. Healing comes when the good days start to exceed the poor ones.”) Sitka chiropractic care incorporating gentle chiropractic adjusting – like with Cox® Technic – enhances the odds of good days and more good days!

THORACIC SPINE ADJUSTING HELPS CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Chiropractic treatment of the thoracic spine can be quite gentle and pain-relieving not just for the thoracic spine but also the cervical spine. Thoracic spine thrust adjusting has been shown to improve cervical spine pain and improve disability. A current article tells of improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who have cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most reported by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Adjacent cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Wonderful! There is that positive two-for-one effect again.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Deveau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who using with Cox® Technic improved the neck and arm pain – and sleep - for a patient. There are numerous 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!

Schedule a Sitka chiropractic appointment at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement in the hands of your Sitka chiropractor! Your chiropractor relishes caring for your spine and maintaining the health of all its five sections.

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka appreciates the whole spine and that treating one section of the spine (thoracic) eases pain in another (cervical)! 
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