December 2023 Healthy News from Minster Chiropractic Center Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
Joy! Joy! Joy! That’s this time of year…for most of us. For some it is a pain in the neck. Minster Chiropractic Center is here to help! Chiropractic care at our Minster chiropractic clinic is calm, effective, and proven to be relieving in a reasonably brief period of time. Non-specific neck pain patients noted that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation treatment. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management delivers pain-relieving outcomes. A patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain due to a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported less pain and improved function in 10 visits in 4 weeks. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion who had neck pain and back pain stated that he had decreased pain (which dropped from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits over 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published studies on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, depicted to be a safe and less painful method to lessen chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy reduces the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo care ‘forever’. A recent study stated that chiropractors do not recommend continued care apart from certain neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were recommended for care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest guide for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Minster neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk in our door every day! We are ready to help each one find a little more JOY of the season!
Minster CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want sustained Minster pain relief often get it once they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain reduction and better strength of cervical spine flexor and extensor muscles as well as scapular. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study found that isometric exercises significantly reduced neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are straightforward exercises that don’t take long to do or to have a beneficial effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient dealing with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure you have your next Minster chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
Happy and joy-filled holidays to you and yours from Minster Chiropractic Center!