Tonawanda Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where is chiropractic medicine in your life, in the lives of other Tonawanda folks? Let us look at where it is in others’ lives for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Have you heard that before? Not likely as it is known to take numerous years for such up-to-date, proven concepts to trickle down to common knowledge. There are even people who (not our Tonawanda chiropractic clients!) think chiropractors are quacks when in fact chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Tonawanda chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation surely is the Tonawanda back pain specialist!
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation invites back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Tonawanda chiropractic practice, especially the more difficult cases! For instance, patients who have recurrent lumbar disc herniation are found to respond to non-surgical care and avoid the need for reoperation. (3) Reports assert that from 9 to 33% of people get spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those people see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The call for chiropractic spine care is growing. A majority of neurosurgeons consider a minimum time of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the optimal timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What can such a Tonawanda neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is a possibility for pain relief. Another such study found that no conclusion is known as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is better for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs causing the condition termed stenosis. Further, a high rate of adverse effects is stated in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were reported for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a good idea. A study of 137 patients recommended to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not require surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to need surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation has considerable success in relieving low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation utilizes a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which integrates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves allowing normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper reporting flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A report of 674 emergency room adult visits showed that 500 (74.2%) patients had used at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People seeking such care were significantly younger and more likely to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Such healthcare consumers were much more apt to believe that MBP inhibited illness, treated illness, and was safe, more successful than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
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Listen to a PODCAST about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation relieves back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have experienced back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a Tonawanda chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation as you grow in the realization that chiropractors - like your Tonawanda chiropractor, a true Tonawanda back pain specialist – are recommended for the non-surgical treatment of Tonawanda spine pain and disability. Medicine now endorses spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, as first line treatment for spine pain.
