McHenry Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer enjoy getting an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Not likely. Recent studies are explaining how receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is delivered by chiropractors - may help such McHenry neck pain patients avoid treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside McHenry back pain are primary causes of disability around the world and here in McHenry. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, helpful option for management of back and neck pain for many such patients. Chiropractic is described as care centered on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions via spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is explained as inhibiting back and neck pain in part by spine related mechanisms and possibly via peripheral mechanisms that control inflammatory pain responses. More research is suggested to determine just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We use spinal manipulation daily at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is demonstrated to reduce 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 greater in those who received care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation decreased the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is done by chiropractors in the US. (2) Your McHenry 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, facilitates in relieving pain, a patient case about a patient with neurofibromatosis who had headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually treated cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation along with myofascial release, patient education about modifying her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care decreased her neck and thoracic spine pain and headache frequency. (3) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to give him/her the tools and knowledge to realize such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Showing chronic nonspecific McHenry 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 assist their understanding of their condition found that the combination was more helpful. The combination dropped the patients’ pain-disability scores, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That’s the goal of care for us at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic: less pain.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses 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.
Make your McHenry chiropractic appointment soon. To those McHenry neck pain sufferers not wanting too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the treatment for you!
