Groton Chiropractic Care of Continued Back Pain after Back Surgery
Back surgery. It is an option some choose for back pain relief. About 50% of them report relief at one year later. What then? Another back surgery? Additional pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office would add chiropractic care as a worthwhile option before back surgery, and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office welcomes back pain patients to the Groton back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and continued to have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical approach to alleviate Groton spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that is based on evidence-based research with documented clinical outcomes of alleviating and controlling back pain. It fulfills Groton back pain patients’ desire for relief. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers it to their Groton back pain patients if they find themselves with post-surgical continued pain or the condition diagnosis of “failed back surgery syndrome” (FBSS).
Post Surgical Continued Pain Diagnosis
Low back pain care with chiropractic is shown to be equally effective as physical therapy with no serious adverse side-effects. This review report goes on to say that “the decision to seek or to refer patients for chiropractic care should be based on patient preference and values.” (1) That’s what evidence-based medicine is all about: seek out the best evidence from the research, pursue care from the back pain specialist who is clinically adept, and meet patient expectations and preferences. That is what chiropractic research continues to do: produce the research and publish the outcomes for the public to decide what is best for dealing with their back pain.
How to decide though? Surgeons, pain control specialists, physical therapists and chiropractors all offer their various approaches that seem reasonable for relief, the pain suffering patient may have trouble deciding. What might help? Have all of these providers provide patients with unbiased information about the potential benefits and risks of the options. (2) Everyone knows though that when the pain is intense, the first offer of relief is really appealing. Being human, the healthcare provider seeing a patient in pain wants to help that back pain patient get rid of the pain fast, too. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office certainly does. Our Groton back pain sufferers are grateful when they get relief after care.
So Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office shares these recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Groton back pain patients: spinal manipulation relief for post-surgical continued pain patients and for post-implanted and currently wearing spinal stimulator patients. A study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients, 80% of patients demonstrated greater than 50% relief of pain at the conclusion of care (3 months) in a mean of 49 days and 11 visits, and 78.6% reported 50% relief of pain at 24 months follow up. The percent of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers report that no adverse effects from chiropractic manipulation or mobilization treatment applied to patients who have implanted spine stimulators for pain control are seen in their findings. (4) Finally, a post-surgical patient reacts well to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, registering pain dropping from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office finds that a combination approach for pain relief is often most beneficial for our Groton chiropractic patients.
Every Groton chiropractic patient is matched with his or her very own, personalized treatment plan that involves the following: recommendation of a variety of approaches as appropriate, interaction with fellow healthcare colleagues as necessary, presentation of the newest in clinical outcomes of care options existing, and standing by you, our Groton post-surgical continued back pain patient, through it all.
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