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Tonawanda Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care

Where does chiropractic medicine fit 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) Did you know that? Not likely as it takes many years for such innovative, proven models to filter to common knowledge. There are even people who (not our Tonawanda chiropractic clients!) think chiropractors are quacks when as a matter of 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 office, especially the more difficult cases! For example, patients who have recurrent lumbar disc herniation reportedly respond to non-surgical care and escape the necessity of reoperation. (3) Reports say that from 9 to 33% of people receive 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 rising. A majority of neurosurgeons consider a minimum time of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best 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 an option 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 worthy 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 need surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to require 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 vast success in treating low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation employs a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which incorporates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves permitting normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper describing how 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 study of 674 emergency room adult visits revealed that 500 (74.2%) patients had visited at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People going to them were significantly younger and tended to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Such healthcare consumers were much more likely to believe that MBP prevented illness, treated illness, and was safe, more successful than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)

CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation

Listen to one of these PODCASTS 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 specialty, as first line treatment for spine pain.

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation offers chiropractic spinal manipulation as recommended for spine pain relief and appreciated by Tonawanda chiropractic patients. 
 
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