Connected Chiropractic Helps Relieve Post-Surgical Back Pain
Back surgery. It’s an option some choose to get relief of their back pain. About 50% of them report relief at one year later. What then? More back surgery? Additional pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Connected Chiropractic would add chiropractic care as a viable approach before back surgery, and Connected Chiropractic welcomes back pain patients to the Elgin back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and continued to have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical approach to relieve Elgin spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that offers much evidence-based research as its foundation with documented clinical outcomes of relieving and controlling back pain. Cox Technic fulfills Elgin back pain patients’ desire for relief. Connected Chiropractic offers it to their Elgin 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
Low back pain care with chiropractic shows itself to be equally beneficial 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.
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 Elgin back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers present patients with unbiased 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. Connected Chiropractic certainly does. Our Elgin back pain sufferers are appreciative when they get relief after care.
So Connected Chiropractic shares these recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Elgin 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 demonstrated greater than 50% relief of pain at the end 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 state 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 reacts positively to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, reporting pain dropping from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Connected Chiropractic notices that a combination approach for pain relief is usually best for our Elgin chiropractic patients.
Connected Chiropractic creates a chiropractic treatment plan custom-made for each Elgin chiropractic patient that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, interaction with fellow healthcare colleagues as needed, presentation of the latest in clinical outcomes of care options available, and support for you, our Elgin post-surgical continued back pain patient, through it all.
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