Elgin Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer enjoy getting an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Not likely. New studies are explaining how receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is delivered by chiropractors - may help such Elgin neck pain patients avert treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Connected Chiropractic is ready to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside Elgin back pain are leading causes of disability globally and here in Elgin. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, effective option for management of back and neck pain for many such patients. Chiropractic is explained as care focused on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions with spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is explained as inhibiting back and neck pain partly by spine related mechanisms and possibly via peripheral mechanisms that regulate inflammatory pain responses. More research is suggested to figure out just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We use spinal manipulation every day at Connected Chiropractic.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is demonstrated to decrease 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 decreased the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is delivered by chiropractors in the United States. (2) Your Elgin 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 together with myofascial release, patient education about adjusting her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care decreased her neck and thoracic spine pain as well as headache frequency. (3) Connected Chiropractic works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to provide him/her the tools and understanding to realize such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Giving chronic nonspecific Elgin 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 impactful. The combination decreased the patients’ pain-disability indices, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That is the goal of care for us at Connected Chiropractic: reduced pain.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his use of manually treated cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to deliver neck pain relief for a couple of patients troubled by painful disc herniations.
Schedule your Elgin chiropractic appointment today. To those Elgin neck pain sufferers not desiring too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the treatment for you!
