Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief
Back surgery isn’t always required to relieve back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that 0.8% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require? Pain relief. An understanding of their condition. Gentle treatment. A sound treatment plan. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has such a plan for suffererers Ashburn and Herndon post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that integrates safe, doctor-supervised, patient-engaged chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY
Certain researchers in the medical profession want to discard their term “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with post-surgical pain after a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who sought chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 43.8 to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among the treatments), 48% maintained their improvement, 42% experienced a recurrence, 10% were not available for follow up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain patients noted numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to 2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse events were documented for any of the postsurgical patients in this review with the mean number of treatments being 14. Chiropractic care consisted of the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain following back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All delivered care via protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or more relief of pain at the end of active care was reported for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments was 11. A 24-months’ follow up found that 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had continued pain relief greater than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not sought more care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 had further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back pain following back surgery was attained for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers who have already had back surgery may welcome these outcomes for themselves! Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is ready to help.
KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To stick to a plan, all involved must be aware of what is going to happen to affect a change in pain. A study calculated the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements of sufferers who have lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was increased from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain reduced from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility improved as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers stretching toward the floor). Passive straight leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Atiyeh on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d undergone back surgery and still experienced back pain.
Make your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment today. Back surgery isn’t the only choice for many with back pain. And for those who have already undergone back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may finally produce the pain relief you want.
