December 2023 Healthy News from Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
Joy! Joy! Joy! That’s this time of year…for most of us. For some it can be a pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic care at our Sitka chiropractic clinic is gentle, effective, and proven to ease pain in a fairly brief timeframe. Non-specific neck pain patients noted that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation treatment. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management delivers pain-relieving outcomes. One patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported less pain and improved function in 10 treatments over a month. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion who had neck pain and back pain stated that he had less pain (which fell from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits over 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published studies on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, depicted to be a safe and less painful method to alleviate chronic neck pain, concluded that manipulative therapy lessens the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients don’t have to undergo care ‘forever’. A new study wrote that chiropractors do not recommend continued care apart from certain neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were recommended for care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest guide for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Sitka neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into this Sitka chiropractic office daily! We are ready to help each one re-discover the JOY of the season!
Sitka CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want sustained Sitka pain relief often get it once they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain decrease and improved strength of cervical spine flexor, extensor and scapular muscles. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study tested and discovered that isometric exercises significantly lowered neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are easy exercises that do not take long to do or to have a beneficial effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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We wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!