Richmond Knee Pain Relief at Johnson Chiropractic
Knee pain. Osteoarthritis. Common terms. Common conditions Johnson Chiropractic hears about and helps! Johnson Chiropractic treats Richmond knee pain sufferers with the degenerative joint disorder called osteoarthritis. Joint tissue damage and pain frequently are the markers of osteoarthritis and knee pain. Richmond knee pain patients typically value non-surgical interventions. Johnson Chiropractic presents those for knee pain as well as back, leg, neck and arm pain.
MEDICINE’S TRY AT KNEE DISTRACTION WITH A DEVICE
Medical care for most ailments including knee pain is typically medication and surgery. Lately, it has devised a joint-specific distraction device that wasn’t a hit with patients because of its not allowing flexion throughout the treatment phase of 6 weeks. The researchers revised its design a bit, but it is still being investigated to see how patients accept it. (1) Well, chiropractors have a better, more tolerable way to treat the knee with distraction! It’s soothing. It feels good. It doesn’t have be a conspicuous device worn everywhere to be valuable! It does not involve meds! So good.
Richmond CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR KNEE PAIN RELIEF WITH THE HANDS
Knee pain treated with chiropractic flexion distraction principles offers knee pain sufferers hope. A new report just published reports on 25 patients with knee pain (many with osteoarthritis, some acute, some chronic, even some post-knee replacement with continued knee pain) treated with chiropractic flexion distraction. Overall knee pain patients described pain drops from 7.7 to 1.8 (1 [no pain] – 10 [worst pain]) in a mean of 5.3 treatments over 3 weeks. More specifically, acute knee pain patients had pain drops from 8.1 to 1.1 in 4.8 treatments in 2.4 weeks. And chronic knee pain patients noted pain drops from 7.5 to 2.2 in 5.4 treatments in 3.3 weeks.
Pain Score Drop (1 no pain - 10 worst pain) | # of Treatments | # of Weeks | |
Overall | 7.7 to 1.8 | 5.3 | 3 |
Acute | 8.1 to 1.1 | 4.8 | 2.4 |
Chronic | 7.5 to 2.2 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
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Listen to a PODCAST with the study’s author, Dr. Luigi Albano, as he describes osteoarthritis.
Schedule a Richmond chiropractic appointment to feel for yourself the soothing, relieving treatment of hurting knees and osteoarthritis. Richmond chiropractic care for knee pain is hands-on care for Richmond knee pain.