For many, ocean waves are calming. For Fernandina Beach back pain and
neck pain patients, experiencing the wave of relief from
pain can be the same if they understand it. For those who do not realize that pain ebbs and flows while healing, the wave of
healing can be frustrating. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic helps our
patients understand the wave of healing, know the research behind our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate
the pain relief they experience.
DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN
Since back and neck pain experiences are complete
with fluctuating symptoms as they get better,
researchers have worked on a system
to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking
1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow.
The biggest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25%
of the patients in it reporting pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (10
worst pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% with a pain rating of 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients
were those bothered more by pain than the others. (1) Instead
of just describing and rating pain, researchers had
patients portray their pain using a visual picture scale about
their pain intensity and symptomatology over a year. The
patient responses were very similar in explaining
the pain intensity but not as much for the symptoms and their
characteristics. (2) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic notices that everybody
feels pain in slightly different ways
and that they find certain sorts of pain more annoying than others
do. All of our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients are distinctive!
THE HEALING “WAVE”
For a year, another study followed
1124 neck pain patients who saw a chiropractor. Neck pain patients
having “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over 12 months - and very minor pain remained relatively stable. Those
who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – shifted
more in their pain patterns. (3) This is why we inform
our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more like a wave
than a straight line. While healing, pain comes and goes.
Going away more than it comes is a positive signal of
healing and pain relief. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic reminds our Fernandina Beach
neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We
will get there together!
CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS
Research such as explained here regarding
the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers shows
the on-going need for them to have team members like their
chiropractors as well as general practitioners to manage
it, understand it, and care for it. A researcher described
how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now had
neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease – a condition
often seen in spinal discs above and below a spinal level that
underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion
distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound
for pain relief. (4) Again, pain relief is seldom
sudden, but rather systematic with treatment,
coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief attained
be it 50%, 70% or 90% as explained by the 50% Rule of Cox®
Technic.
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. John Murray on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares patient
cases that were complicated and yet attained
relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management over
time.
Make your Fernandina Beach chiropractic
appointment soon. Together, we will work toward
the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.
