Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief
Back surgery isn’t always necessary to relieve back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that less than 1% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% need? Pain relief. An understanding of their condition. Gentle treatment. A solid treatment plan. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc has such a plan for patients with Fort Wayne post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-directed, patient-involved chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY
Certain researchers in the medical profession want to abandon their term “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with post-surgical pain after a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who pursued chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 43.8 to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among the treatments), 48% maintained their improvement, 42% had a recurrence, 10% were inaccessible for follow up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain patients recorded numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to 2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse events were noted for any of the postsurgical patients in this review with the mean number of treatments being 14. Chiropractic care integrated the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain following back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All followed protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or greater relief of pain at the end of active care was documented for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments was 11. At 2 years follow up, 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had kept their pain relief of more than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not sought further care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 went through further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back pain following back surgery was realized for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Fort Wayne back pain sufferers who have already experienced back surgery may appreciate these outcomes for themselves! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is ready to help.
KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To stick to a plan, all involved must be aware of what is going to happen to affect a change in pain. One study measured the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements of sufferers who have lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was increased from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain decreased from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility improved as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers stretching toward the floor). Passive straight leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Fort Wayne chiropractic care.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Atiyeh on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d gone through back surgery and still experienced back pain.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment soon. Back surgery is not the only option for many with back pain. And for those who have already had back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may finally produce the pain relief you desire.
