Back surgery isn’t always necessary to relieve back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that less than 1% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or
spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% need?
Pain relief. Reassurance and knowledge of their condition.
Gentle treatment. A sound treatment plan. Back And Neck Care Center has
such a plan for suffererers Severna Park post-back-surgery,
failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-delivered,
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 term “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 pursued
chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain
scale) scores dropped from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability
Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 43.8
to 2.4. At 12 months’ post chiropractic care (multi-modal
chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among 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 documented numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to
2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse
events were documented for any of the postsurgical
patients in this review. The mean number of treatments was 14. Chiropractic care consisted
of the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69
post-surgical continued pain patients who still had 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 recorded
for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments
was 11. A 24-months’ follow up found that 56
patients were available. 78.6% of them had kept their pain
relief of more 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 underwent
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 reached for 81% of
patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Severna Park back pain sufferers
who have already had back surgery may appreciate
these outcomes for themselves! Back And Neck Care Center is prepared to help.
KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To commit to a plan, all involved must be
aware of what is going to happen to affect a change in pain. One study calculated the short-term
effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements
of patients who have lumbar degenerative disc
disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was enlarged from
6.32 to 6.93. Back pain reduced 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 improved from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired
and documented changes with gentle, safe Severna Park chiropractic care.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
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 Severna Park chiropractic
appointment today. Back surgery is not the only choice
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 want.