Groton Non-Surgical Care Delivers Back Pain Reliefand MRI Images Show it

May 23, 2017

Back surgery. Non-surgical care. What’s best for back pain and leg pain?

Now, that’s an age-old question for back pain and leg pain sufferers and doctors alike. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office mulls it over from time to time and often concludes that Groton back pain and leg pain sufferers find relief with Groton chiropractic care. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows the symptoms to look for that would send a patient to back surgery. Beyond those, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is skilled in the conservative care of back pain and leg pain to produce the pain relief our Groton chiropractic patients want.

Relief Possible Without Back Surgery

Medicine notices that back pain relief is viable non—surgicall! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is enthusiastic to see this latest back pain treatment study. A group of medical doctors followed patients with lumbar disc herniations (most at L4-5 and L5-S1). These patients were 38 years old on average, just the age that spinal research reports as average for back pain sufferers to have a bad case of back pain that’s been building for years. These patients suffered with low back pain and sciatica that extends into one or both legs. Many patients had already tried physiotherapy and other medical treatment to no avail before this intervention. (1) Groton back pain patients at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office have read this story before…or lived it! We notice that so many of the Groton back pain patients coming to the office have attempted many other approaches to get rid of their back pain. They just want relief now. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is prepared to give it.

Give Some Time to Treatment and Relief

These researchers report that conservative medical care (like bed rest and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, gels) granted enough time eased these back pain patients’ pain. They didn’t have to have back surgery. Their MRI studies even demonstrate improvement as they improved symptomatically and felt relief of their back pain and sciatic leg pain. (1) Notice that the size of the disc herniation on MRI doesn’t influence clinical outcome. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office says this all the time! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office posted many articles about this very topic: the size of the disc herniation does not matter! Neither early back surgery nor conservative care for back pain relief showed any significant outcome differences. (2) The average time for patients to recuperate from their back pain symptoms due to lumbar disc herniation was 13.6 months (give or take 5.4 months). (1) Fortunately for our Groton back pain patients, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office pursues at least 50% relief of pain in the first 30 days and discovers that 91% of our patients get relief in 3 months. (3) The authors caution their colleagues that such relief is potential and should be taken into account when deciding a potential back surgery if there are no signs for immediate surgical intervention. (1) Yes! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office helps Groton back pain and leg pain patients when they desire non-surgical care for their pain. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers evidence-based chiropractic care for back pain relief with Cox Technic.

Schedule your Groton chiropractic visit today. You’ll discover the answer to your question - back surgery or conservative care – and the back pain relief that follows.

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