Groton Neck Pain Responds to Chiropractic Care
Does any neck pain sufferer want to get an xray or MRI or injection or surgery? Not likely. New studies are showing that receiving spinal manipulation – 90% of which is done by chiropractors - may help such Groton neck pain patients avert treatment escalation to imaging/injections/surgery. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is here to help with that!
EFFECTS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN
Neck pain alongside Groton back pain are leading causes of disability globally and here in Groton. Chiropractic is being reported as a safe, effective option for management of back and neck pain for many such patients. Chiropractic is explained as care centered on spine care and treatment of spine pain conditions via spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is described as inhibiting back and neck pain in part by spine related mechanisms and potentially via peripheral mechanisms that control inflammatory pain responses. More research is called upon to figure out just what the specific and non-specific effects of spinal manipulation are. (1) We use spinal manipulation daily at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office.
SPINAL MANIPULATION CONTAINS NECK PAIN TREATMENT ESCALATION
Spinal manipulation for neck pain is shown to decrease the risk of treatment escalation. 42% of neck pain patients seeking relief find that their treatment is escalated to include care like imaging, injection, emergency room visit, or surgery. Such risk was 2.38 times greater in those who received care other than spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation reduced the risk. Over 90% of spinal manipulation is done by chiropractors in the US. (2) Your Groton chiropractor uses specialized, research-based, safe, and gentle spinal manipulation for neck pain relief.
SPECIFIC FORM OF DOCUMENTED SPINAL MANIPULATION FOR NECK PAIN RELIEF
As an example of how a specific form of spinal manipulation, Cox® Technic flexion distraction, helps relieve pain, a case report of a patient with neurofibromatosis who had headaches, temporomandibular discomfort as well as neck, scapular and lumbar pain, manually treated cervical spine flexion distraction spinal manipulation together with myofascial release, patient education about adjusting her workplace ergonomics, and at-home care decreased her neck and thoracic spine pain as well as headache frequency. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works one-on-one with each neck pain sufferer to give him/her the tools and understanding to realize such relief.
PATIENT SELF-CARE AND UNDERSTANDING
Showing chronic nonspecific Groton neck pain patients things they can do to help themselves and to understand their neck pain enhances their outcomes. A study comparing therapeutic exercise alone to therapeutic exercise plus pain neuroscience education to assist their understanding of their condition found that the combination was more impactful. The combination reduced the patients’ pain-disability scores, pain catastrophizing thoughts, and fear-avoidance beliefs. (4) That is the goal of care for us at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office: less pain.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ben Glass on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses his use of manually treated cervical spine Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction to deliver neck pain relief for a couple of patients troubled by painful disc herniations.
Set up your Groton chiropractic appointment soon. To those Groton neck pain sufferers not wanting too much treatment and testing, our spinal manipulation care may be just the treatment you need!
