For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves
is calming. For Tonawanda back pain and
neck pain patients, experiencing the wave of healing pain relief can be the same if they understand it. For those who do not realize that pain ebbs and flows while healing, the wave of
healing can be saddening. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation helps our
patients appreciate the wave of healing, are
aware of the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate
the pain relief they experience.
DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN
Since back and neck pain experiences are complete
with fluctuations of symptoms as they get better,
researchers tried to come up with a way
to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking
1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow.
The largest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25%
of the patients in it reporting pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (0 no pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% with a pain rating of 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients
were those bothered more by pain than the others. (1) Instead
of just describing and rating pain, researchers had
patients describe their pain using a visual picture scale about
their pain intensity and symptomatology over 12 months. The
patient responses were quite similar in defining
the pain intensity but not as much for the symptoms and their
characteristics. (2) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation observes that everybody
experiences pain in slightly different ways
and that they find certain types of pain more annoying than others
do. All of our Tonawanda chiropractic patients are distinctive!
THE HEALING “WAVE”
For a year, another study tracked
1124 neck pain patients seeing a chiropractor. Neck pain patients
experiencing “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over 12 months - and very minor pain stayed relatively stable. Those
who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – changed
more in their pain patterns. (3) This is the reason we forewarn
our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more like a wave
than a straight line. While healing, pain ebbs and flows.
Going away more than it comes is a solid signal of
healing and pain relief. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation reminds our Tonawanda
neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We’ll get there together!
CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS
Research such as explained here regarding
the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers shows
the on-going need for them to have team members like their
chiropractors along with general practitioners to manage
it, understand it, and care for it. One researcher explained
how a patient who had spinal surgery 30 years ago now experienced
neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease – a condition
often seen in spinal discs around the spinal level that
underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion
distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound
for pain relief. (4) Again, pain relief is rarely
sudden, but rather slow and steady with treatment,
coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief gotten
be it 50%, 70% or 90% as explained by the 50% Rule of Cox®
Technic.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. John Murray on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents patient
cases that were difficultcomplex and yet found
relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with
time.
Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic
appointment today. Together, we’ll aim for
the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.
