Fernandina Beach Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where does chiropractic medicine fit in your life, in the lives of other Fernandina Beach folks? Let’s start with where it fits in the lives of others for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Did you know that? Probably not because it takes many years for such innovative, proven models to trickle down to common knowledge. Some people (not our Fernandina Beach chiropractic clients!) deem chiropractors are quacks when actually chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic certainly is the Fernandina Beach back pain specialist!
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic welcomes back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Fernandina Beach chiropractic practice, particularly the painful cases! For example, patients who experience recurrent lumbar disc herniation reportedly respond to non-surgical care and avoid the necessity of reoperation. (3) Reports state that from 9 to 33% of people get spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those people see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The call for chiropractic spine care is rising. A majority of neurosurgeons consider a minimum period of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What can such a Fernandina Beach neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is an option for pain relief. Another similar study found that no conclusion is known as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is superior for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs triggering the condition termed stenosis. Further, a high rate of adverse effects is reported in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were described for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a sound idea. A study of 137 patients proposed to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not require surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to require surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic has vast success in treating low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic uses a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which incorporates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves allowing normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper describing how flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A study of 674 emergency room adult visits showed that 500 (74.2%) patients had received care from at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People seeking such care were significantly younger and tended to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Such healthcare consumers were much more apt to believe that MBP inhibited illness, treated illness, and was safe, more successful than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
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Listen to one of these PODCASTS about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation benefits back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have struggled with back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic as you grow in the realization that chiropractors - like your Fernandina Beach chiropractor, a true Fernandina Beach back pain specialist – are recommended for the non-surgical treatment of Fernandina Beach spine pain and disability. Medicine now recommends spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s specialty, as first line treatment for spine pain.
