Carrolltown Chiropractic Care of Continued Back Pain after Back Surgery

March 28, 2017

Back surgery. It is an option some choose for back pain relief. At one year follow up, generally around 50% of surgical patients report continued relief. What’s next? Another back surgery? Additional pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation would add chiropractic care as a worthwhile option before back surgery, and Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation welcomes back pain patients to the Carrolltown back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and continued to have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical approach to alleviate Carrolltown spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that is based on evidence-based research with documented clinical outcomes of alleviating and controlling back pain. It fulfills Carrolltown back pain patients’ desire for relief. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers it to their Carrolltown back pain patients if they find themselves with post-surgical continued pain or the condition diagnosis of “failed back surgery syndrome” (FBSS).

Post Surgical Continued Pain Diagnosis

A FBSS diagnosis is surely not one a post-surgical back pain patient wants to ponder let alone experience. It’s a possibility though. Often another surgery isn’t the desired answer for these particular back pain sufferers. Often such a patient is referred for physical therapy, prescribed medications or injections, even implanted with a spine stimulator. Often such a patient wants to try anything but those medical approaches. Sometimes such a patient wishes he or she had tried something else before back surgery. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation stands ready with its Carrolltown chiropractic care to assist at any stage of the process of back pain and its relief.

Chiropractic Care for FBSS

Low back pain care with chiropractic shows itself to be equally effective as physical therapy with no serious adverse side-effects. This review report further states that “the decision to seek or to refer patients for chiropractic care should be based on patient preference and values.” (1) That is what evidence-based medicine is all about: seek out the best evidence from the research, seek care from the back pain specialist who is clinically proficient, and meet patient expectations and preferences. That’s what chiropractic research continues to do: produce the research and publish the outcomes for the public to decide what is best for dealing with their back pain.

Decision Making

How does one make that decision though? When a surgeon proposes surgery or a pain medicine doctor offers medication or a physical therapist offers exercise or a chiropractor offers spinal manipulation in one form or another, how does the relief-seeking Carrolltown back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers present patients with impartial information about the potential benefits and risks of the options. (2) Everyone knows though that when the pain is intense, the first offer of relief looks really good. Being human, the healthcare provider seeing a patient in pain wants to help that back pain patient get rid of the pain fast, too. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation certainly does. Our Carrolltown back pain sufferers are thankful when they get relief after care.

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So Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation wants to share recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Carrolltown back pain patients: spinal manipulation relief for post-surgical continued pain patients and for post-implanted and currently wearing spinal stimulator patients. A study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients, 80% of patients showed greater than 50% relief of pain at the conclusion of care (3 months) in a mean of 49 days and 11 visits, and 78.6% continued with their 50% relief of pain at 24 months follow up. The percent of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers report that no adverse effects from chiropractic manipulation or mobilization treatment applied to patients who have implanted spine stimulators for pain control are seen in their findings. (4) Finally, a post-surgical patient responds well to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, registering pain decreasing from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation finds that a combination approach for pain relief is usually best for our Carrolltown chiropractic patients.

Every Carrolltown chiropractic patient is matched with his or her very own, personalized treatment plan that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, cooperation with fellow healthcare colleagues as needed, presentation of the latest in clinical outcomes of care options existing, and standing by you, our Carrolltown post-surgical continued back pain patient, through it all.

Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic visit today.

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