McHenry Chiropractic Care of Neck Pain: Exercise and Spinal Manipulation
Neck pain is an everyday condition bringing patients into our McHenry chiropractic clinic! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic finds that chronic neck pain is a frequent problem today. Whether the neck pain is non-specific or chronic, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is here to help coordinate some relief from the neck pain with a McHenry chiropractic treatment plan involving spinal manipulation and exercise.
EXERCISE OR MANUAL THERAPY…OR BOTH?
Neck pain treatment options are plentiful. One popular method is manual therapy. (OrthoIllinois Chiropractic uses gentle Cox® Technic spinal manipulation.) Another approach is exercise. A third is mixing the two. A recent study compared manual therapy, exercise or placebo. Manual therapy alone enhanced perceived neck pain more quickly than exercise. Therapeutic exercise decreased disability sooner than manual therapy. (1) A further research project assessed manual therapy plus exercise to exercise by itself over 4 weeks. Manual therapy plus exercise increased short- and medium-term neck pain more effectively than exercise alone. (2) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic has found that patient participation enhances clinical outcomes, too. Combining the most effective therapies for neck pain relief is the better option.
COX® TECHNIC AND EXERCISE FOR NECK PAIN RELIEF
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic follows the research. Research demonstrated that a safe, gentle form of manual manipulation, Cox® Technic, decreased cervical spine intradiscal pressures. (3) In the clinical comparison study of Cox® flexion distraction alone to exercise only for neck pain to the combination of the two that combining the two was beneficial. (4) Cox® Technic flexion distraction for neck pain relief relieved pain in a mean of 13.2 visits in a study of cervical spine radiculopathy patients. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic finds that McHenry neck pain patients are anxious to help themselves by doing recommended neck exercises as well as making their chiropractic treatment visits.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Matthew Scott on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares his care of a former pro football player for whom surgery was recommended for neck pain relief and how his care with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporation helped him prevent that.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment now. We welcome neck pain patients. As frequent as neck pain is, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic knows it is a common annoyance for the neck pain sufferer! Our McHenry chiropractic care may be the neck pain solution.
