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 offered at our Groton chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-alleviating outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still have back pain…or has it returned? You’re not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will opt for more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will pursue non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A recent meta-analysis of published data on the types of spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery determined that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over 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 attained 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 reasonable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was anticipated to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office proposes Cox® Technic to reduce the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the help 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 associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. Those low in vitamin D required more time in the gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with below 10 ng/mL which marked 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 increased. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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