Carrolltown Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer want to get an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Nope! Recent studies are showing that receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is done by chiropractors - may help such Carrolltown neck pain patients avert treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside Carrolltown back pain are leading causes of disability globally and here in Carrolltown. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, effective option for management of back and neck pain for many sufferers. Chiropractic is explained as care centered on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions via spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is described as inhibiting back and neck pain in part by spine related mechanisms and possibly via peripheral mechanisms that control inflammatory pain responses. More research is recommended to figure out just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We utilize spinal manipulation daily at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is shown to reduce the risk of treatment escalation. 42% of neck pain patients seeking relief find that their treatment is heightened to include care like imaging, injection, emergency room visit, or surgery. Such risk was 2.38 times higher in those who got care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation reduced the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is delivered by chiropractors in the United States. (2) Your Carrolltown chiropractor delivers specialized, research-based, safe, and gentle spinal manipulation for neck pain relief.
SPECIFIC FORM OF DOCUMENTED SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN RELIEF
As an example of how a specific form of spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic flexion distraction, helps relieve pain, a patient case about a patient with neurofibromatosis who had headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually applied cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with myofascial release, patient education about modifying her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care reduced her neck and thoracic spine pain as well as headache frequency. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to provide him/her the tools and knowledge to get such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Giving chronic nonspecific Carrolltown neck pain patients things they can do to help themselves and to understand their neck pain boosts their outcomes. A study comparing therapeutic exercise alone to therapeutic exercise plus pain neuroscience education to help them understand their condition found that the combination was more helpful. The combination decreased the patients’ pain-disability scores, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That is the goal of care for us at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation: less pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses his use of manually delivered cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to ease neck pain for two patients afflicted with painful disc herniations.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment soon. To those Carrolltown neck pain sufferers not wanting too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the care you need!
