Fernandina Beach Chiropractic Care of Continued Back Pain after Back Surgery
Back surgery. It’s an option some choose for back pain relief. At one year follow up, generally around 50% of surgical patients report continued relief. What’s next? More back surgery? More pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Amelia Chiropractic Clinic would add chiropractic care as a worthwhile approach before back surgery, and Amelia Chiropractic Clinic welcomes back pain patients to the Fernandina Beach back pain specialty practice even if they’ve already undergone back surgery and continued to have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical method to alleviate Fernandina Beach spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that has much evidence-based research as its foundation with documented clinical outcomes of relieving and controlling back pain. Cox Technic satisfies Fernandina Beach back pain patients seeking relief. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers it to their Fernandina Beach back pain patients if they find themselves with post-surgical continued pain or the condition diagnosis of “failed back surgery syndrome” (FBSS).
Post Surgical Continued Pain Diagnosis
Low back pain care with chiropractic shows itself to be equally effective as physical therapy with no serious adverse side-effects. This review report goes on to say that “the decision to seek or to refer patients for chiropractic care should be based on patient preference and values.” (1) That is what evidence-based medicine is all about: seek out the best evidence from the research, pursue care from the back pain specialist who is clinically adept, and meet patient expectations and preferences. That is what chiropractic research continues to do: produce the research and publish the outcomes for the public to base its decision on what is best for managing their back pain.
How does one make that decision though? When a surgeon proposes surgery or a pain medicine doctor offers medication or a physical therapist offers exercise or a chiropractor offers spinal manipulation in one form or another, how does the relief-seeking Fernandina Beach back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers provide patients with impartial information about the potential benefits and risks of the options. (2) Everyone knows though that when the pain is intense, the first offer of relief looks really good. Being human, the healthcare provider seeing a patient in pain wants to help that back pain patient get rid of the pain fast, too. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic certainly does. Our Fernandina Beach back pain sufferers are thankful when they get relief after care.
So Amelia Chiropractic Clinic wants to share recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Fernandina Beach back pain patients: spinal manipulation relief for post-surgical continued pain patients and for post-implanted and currently wearing spinal stimulator patients. A study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients, 80% of patients showed greater than 50% relief of pain at the end of care (3 months) in a mean of 49 days and 11 visits, and 78.6% reported 50% relief of pain at 24 months follow up. The percent of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers tell that no adverse effects from chiropractic manipulation or mobilization treatment applied to patients who have implanted spine stimulators for pain control are observed in their findings. (4) Finally, a post-surgical patient reacts positively to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, reporting pain decreasing from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic observes that a combination approach for pain relief is usually best for our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients.
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic creates a chiropractic treatment plan custom-made for each Fernandina Beach chiropractic patient that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, cooperation with fellow healthcare colleagues as needed, presentation of the newest in clinical outcomes of care options existing, and support for you, our Fernandina Beach post-surgical continued back pain patient, through it all.
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