Connected Chiropractic Cares for Neck Pain and Painful Cervical Spine Facet Joints
Zygapophyseal joints are also named facet joints. Facet is a bit easier to pronounce than zygapophyseal, and Connected Chiropractic knows ‘facet’ is much easier to write out than 'zygaopophyseal’! These joints are documented to be the source of cervical spine pain for countless adults of all ages. Connected Chiropractic uses gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation to relieve neck pain like that created by facet joint innervation.
ORIGINAL STUDY
Mapping of normal volunteers’ responses to stimulation of cervical facet joints in the 1990s was groundbreaking. Five volunteers stepped up to have their cervical spine facet joints stimulated to see where neck pain and arm pain were observed. Wow! These volunteers’ pain responses allowed for the making of easy-to-understand pain charts. (1) A follow up study of 10 actual cervical pain patients that compared their pain to that described in the pain drawings of the normal volunteers to confirm the initial charts from normal volunteers. (2) Connected Chiropractic sees verification of these normal volunteers’ pain reports in our Elgin neck pain patients! Decompression of spinal nerves with chiropractic helps.
NEW INPUT ON CERVICAL FACET JOINTS
Novel information from a current-day dissection project added new knowledge to the job cervical facet joints (aka zygapophyseal joints) play in neck pain and arm pain. At some levels, more than one medial branch was seen. Direct facet joint branches were found that originated from the dorsal root of the spinal nerve. These were separate from the medial branches in their direct route to the facet joint. Current day researchers suggest that there is a more varied pattern of innervation than has previously been documented. (3) Connected Chiropractic appreciates the nuances of spine pain and the research that found them.
EXAM AND TREATMENT
Clinical observation, examination, and imaging findings guide the diagnosis of neck pain given the complexity of cervical facet joints. (4) The cervical spine facet joint is innervated by mechanoreceptive (mechanical pressure-inducing) and nociceptive (nervous system related pain-inducing) nerve fibers involving the dorsal root ganglia and end processes of the spinal cord. The central nervous system is complex and responsive to these painful stimuli, both pressure and nerve related. (5) That is why your Elgin chiropractor takes time in examining, diagnosing and treating Elgin neck pain. There are a multitude of factors to take into account! Our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management is gentle, non-thrust spinal manipulation of the cervical spine for Elgin neck pain relief.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Sean Delahunt on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his gentleman patient with neck pain and tingling in his arm and hand.
Schedule your next Elgin chiropractic appointment with Connected Chiropractic. Pick your word: zygapophyseal or facet! We’re here to talk, diagnose, and treat them for relief of neck and arm pain.
