March 2023 Healthy News from OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF

Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is proving effective. And Cox® Technic as offered at our McHenry chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still experience back pain…or has it returned? You’re not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will opt for more medical selections like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will pursue non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation applied to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery determined that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients managed with Cox® Technic documented that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the patients reported more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is reasonable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic extends Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the help his patient got with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were found to be associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers calculated vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It required more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to do these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who had vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with less than 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was worse. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic asks: What’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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