December 2023 Healthy News from Aurora Chiropractic Center Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
As much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it’s a pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic care at Aurora Chiropractic Center is gentle, effective, and proven to be relieving in a relatively brief period of time. Non-specific neck pain patients reported that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation treatment. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management provides pain-relieving outcomes. One patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain due to a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported decreased pain and improved function in 10 visits in a month. The patient was without pain and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain reported less pain (which fell from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits in 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published papers on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, described as a safe and less painful method to ease chronic neck pain, concluded that manipulative therapy reduces the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients don’t have to undergo care ‘forever’. A new study documented that chiropractors don’t recommend continued care except for certain types of neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were proposed to continue care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest guide for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Juneau neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk in our door daily! We are ready to help each one re-discover the JOY of the season!
Juneau CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Juneau pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it once they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain lessening and better strength of cervical spine flexor and extensor muscles as well as scapular. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study tested and discovered that isometric exercises significantly lowered neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are straightforward exercises that don’t take long to do or to have a beneficial effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan following The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure you have your next Juneau chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
Happy and joy-filled holidays to you and yours from Aurora Chiropractic Center!