Groton Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where is chiropractic medicine in your life, in the lives of other Groton folks? Let us look at where it fits in others’ lives for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Is that news to you? Likely as it requires many years for such up-to-date, proven models to filter to general knowledge. Some people (not our Groton chiropractic clients!) deem chiropractors are quacks when as a matter of fact chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Groton chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office surely is the Groton back pain specialist!
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office invites back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Groton chiropractic practice, particularly the painful cases! For instance, patients who experience recurrent lumbar disc herniation reportedly respond to non-surgical care and avoid the need for reoperation. (3) Reports say that from 9 to 33% of people receive spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those people see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The demand for chiropractic spine care is increasing. A majority of neurosurgeons think that a minimum time of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What does such a Groton neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is a possibility for pain relief. Another similar study found that no conclusion is drawn as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is better for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs triggering the condition termed stenosis. Further, a high rate of adverse effects is stated in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were reported for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a sound idea. A study of 137 patients recommended to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not need surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to require surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has vast success in treating low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office employs a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which incorporates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves permitting normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper reporting flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A report of 674 emergency room adult visits revealed that 500 (74.2%) patients had used at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People going to them were significantly younger and more probable to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Users were much more apt to believe that MBP inhibited illness, treated illness, and was safe, more successful than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to a PODCAST about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation benefits back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have had back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office as you come to realize that chiropractors - like your Groton chiropractor, a true Groton back pain specialist – are appropriate for the non-surgical treatment of Groton spine pain and disability. Medicine now recommends spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, as first line treatment for spine pain.
