March 2023 Healthy News from Johnson Chiropractic Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

Name: Johnson Chiropractic
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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF

Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as utilized at our Richmond chiropractic clinic is getting noticed for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still have back pain…or has it returned? You are not alone, especially in wanting the pain gone. Some will opt for more medical selections like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – instead of thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients handled with Cox® Technic documented that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients got 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 continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is reasonable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Johnson Chiropractic extends Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details 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 calculated vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It required more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: 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 indicated severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. Add in smoking, high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, and the moderate to severe pain was elevated. (4) Another report indicated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Johnson Chiropractic asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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