December 2023 Healthy News from Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
As much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it is a pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic care at our Tonawanda chiropractic clinic is calm, effective, and proven to be relieving in a fairly short period of time. Non-specific neck pain patients reported 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 provides pain-relieving outcomes. A 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 4 weeks. The patient was without pain and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain reported less pain (which dropped from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits over 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published papers on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, described as a safe and less painful method to ease chronic neck pain, concluded that manipulative therapy decreases the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo care ‘forever’. A recent study documented 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 indicator for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Tonawanda neck pain whether it’s acute or chronic, radiating into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation daily! We are ready to help each one find a little more JOY of the season!
Tonawanda CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Tonawanda pain relief - relief that lasts - 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 found that isometric exercises significantly reduced neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are easy exercises that don’t 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 following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure you have your next Tonawanda chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
We wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!