Richmond Chiropractic Care of Continued Back Pain after Back Surgery
Back surgery. It is an option some choose to get relief of their back pain. At one year follow up, generally around 50% of surgical patients report continued relief. What’s next? Another back surgery? More pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Johnson Chiropractic would add chiropractic care as a viable option before back surgery, and Johnson Chiropractic welcomes back pain patients to the Richmond back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and still have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical method to alleviate Richmond spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that is founded on evidence-based research with documented clinical outcomes of alleviating and controlling back pain. Cox Technic fulfills Richmond back pain patients’ desire for relief. Johnson Chiropractic presents it to their Richmond 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 shows itself to be equally beneficial 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 is 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 does one make that decision though? When a surgeon proposes surgery or a pain medicine doctor offers medication or a physical therapist offers exercise or a chiropractor offers spinal manipulation in one form or another, how does the relief-seeking Richmond back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers present 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. Any human physician wants to help a person in pain get rid of that. Johnson Chiropractic certainly does. Our Richmond back pain sufferers are thankful when they get relief after care.
So Johnson Chiropractic wants to share recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Richmond 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 showed more 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 amount of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers state 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) Johnson Chiropractic notices that a combination approach for pain relief is usually most productive for our Richmond chiropractic patients.
Johnson Chiropractic creates a chiropractic treatment plan tailored for each Richmond chiropractic patient that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, cooperation with fellow healthcare colleagues as needed, presentation of the newest in clinical outcomes of care options existing, and standing by you, our Richmond post-surgical continued back pain patient, all the way.
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