December 2023 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
As much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it can be a pain in the neck. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is here to help! Chiropractic care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is gentle, effective, and proven to be relieving in a reasonably brief timeframe. Non-specific neck pain patients noted that they felt that their neck disability was improved 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 neck pain due to narrowing of the cervical spine foramen and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported reduced pain and improved function in 10 visits in a month. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion who had neck pain and back pain reported reduced pain (which dropped from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits in 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published papers on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, depicted to be a safe and less painful method to lessen chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy decreases the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to continue care ‘forever’. A new study documented that chiropractors do not recommend continued care except for certain types of neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were proposed to continue 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 Carrolltown neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation daily! We are prepared to help each one find a little more JOY of the season!
Carrolltown CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Carrolltown pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it when 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 and extensor muscles as well as scapular. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study found that isometric exercises significantly lowered neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are easy exercises that do not 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 dealing with neck and shoulder pain.
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We wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!