Exercise for Carrolltown Arm Pain and Neck Pain Relief
Non-surgical neck pain treatment alleviates such cervical spine related pain. What does that treatment involve? Researchers and clinicians struggle with that question all the time. What is the answer? With you, the neck pain patient, the arm pain patient. The chiropractic treatment plan from the passive pain-relieving treatment to the self-management tools are formed to each individual neck pain sufferer. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is the neck pain sufferer’s partner in the path to Carrolltown neck pain relief.
NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT OF NECK PAIN STAGES
A set of experts in the conservative management of cervical radiculopathy (neck-related arm pain) gathered to establish a list of effective non-surgical treatment modalities at various stages of pain (acute, subacute, chronic). The stage makes a difference. In the acute stage, more passive pain-relieving interventions – spinal manipulation, patient education, specific foraminal opening exercise, pain-relieving position - were deemed important. As patients progress through subacute (boosted physical activity, supervised motor control, specific exercise, and neurodynamic mobilization) to chronic (general aerobic exercise, strength training), more individualized physical activity and self-management were stated as important. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation agrees with this individualized plan and understands there is a careful balance between passive treatment and active exercise for most favorable results.
HOW MUCH TREATMENT FOR NECK PAIN?
Thirty-seven experts set out to figure out the proper dosage and kind of motor control and segmental exercise was optimal for chronic non-specific neck pain. They converged in agreement most that there were 3 dosage variables: intensity, frequency, and reps. As for which exercise, dosage, procedure, progression, etc., they agreed that prescribing exercise was complex and must be individualized, acceptable, and feasible to the patient. (2) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation wholeheartedly agrees! We work with our Carrolltown neck pain patients to be sure the exercises work for them and their spinal condition and willingness to do the exercises.
ACTIVE CARE OF NECK & ARM PAIN: Exercise
Exercise recommendations for chronic non-specific neck pain have not been well stated. A review of published studies on this topic revealed that (A) many exercise programs decrease pain and disability in the short term, (B) pillar exercises reduce pain and disability in the intermediate term, and (C) motor control plus segmental exercises deliver moderate to great pain decrease overall. Long term pain decreasing exercise recommendations have not been studied. (3) Another aspect of exercise for neck and arm pain patients is the respiratory aspect. Neck pain and forward head posture as experienced by smartphone users were discussed in a comparison study: control, routine therapeutic exercise, (combined) routine therapeutic exercise with respiratory exercises. After 8 weeks, the combined group had significant differences in diaphragm muscle activation, respiratory balance, and number of breaths. (4) Pain and breathing can be friends when done the right way. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation works with each patient to determine what exercises are best for each patient’s stage of pain to improve each one’s condition.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Adam Propper on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporation and exercise to get relief of neck and arm pain.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment now. We make a non-surgical treatment plan with a combination of active exercise and passive care to help each of our neck pain patients find relief]51].
