Back surgery isn’t always required to relieve back pain. According to
Adogwa et al, 0.8% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or
spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require?
Pain relief. An understanding of their condition.
Gentle treatment. A solid treatment plan. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic has
such a plan for patients with Fernandina Beach post-back-surgery,
failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-supervised,
patient-involved chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of
Spinal Pain Management.
BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY
Certain researchers in the medical profession want to abandon
their descriptive phrase “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent
spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with post-surgical
pain after a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who sought
chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain
scale) scores decreased from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability
Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 43.8
to 2.4. At 12 months’ post chiropractic care (multi-modal
chiropractic care with flexion-distraction amid the treatments),
48% sustained their improvement, 42% experienced
a recurrence, 10% were not available for follow
up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain
patients recorded numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to
2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 decrease in pain. No adverse
events were seen for any of the postsurgical
patients in this review with the mean
number of treatments being 14. Chiropractic care included the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69
post-surgical continued pain patients who reported back pain after
back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All followed
protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or greater
relief of pain at the end of active care was documented
for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments
was 11. At 2 years follow up, 56
patients were available. 78.6% of them had continued pain
relief greater than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6
and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not pursued further
care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through
chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 had further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back
pain following back surgery was attained for 81% of
patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Fernandina Beach back pain sufferers
who have already undergone back surgery may appreciate
these outcomes for themselves! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is ready to help.
UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To stick to a plan, all involved must understand what is going to happen to bring about pain
relief. A study calculated the short-term
effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements
of sufferers with lumbar degenerative disc
disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was increased from
6.32 to 6.93. Back pain decreased from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar
spine mobility improved as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent
over with fingers reaching for the floor). Passive straight
leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired
and documented changes with gentle, safe Fernandina Beach chiropractic care.
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. David Atiyeh on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal
Pain Management for a patient who’d gone through
back surgery and still had back pain.
Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic
appointment now. Back surgery isn’t the only option
for many with back pain. And for those who have already undergone
back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may finally
produce the pain relief you desire.