Healthy News March 2023 Spinal Manipulation Relieves Back Pain After Back Surgery Take Your Vitamin D!

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Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that remains or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as used at our Severna Park chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you undergone back surgery? Do you still suffer with back pain…or has it come back? You are not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will opt for more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A recent meta-analysis of published data on the types of spinal manipulation applied to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners chose to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – instead of thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients managed with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients reported more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief lasted! (2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to get rid of it is even more frustrating. Back And Neck Care Center proposes Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the relief his patient got with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were found to be linked with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers analyzed vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. It took more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who had vitamin D deficiency (especially those with below 10 ng/mL which indicated severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was more. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Back And Neck Care Center asks: What’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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