Minster Chiropractic Center Offers Relieving Care for Post-Surgical Neck Pain
Neck pain anytime isn’t welcome. Neck pain after neck surgery is especially unwelcome…by the patient and the treating physician! Gentle manual treatment of post-surgical neck pain and any adjacent-to-the-surgical-level-segment spinal pain conditions at Minster Chiropractic Center helps many Minster neck pain sufferers attain neck pain relief.
DDD
Degenerative disc disease (DDD) - the wear and tear of a or multiple spinal discs – shows itself as low back pain and neck and arm pain. 40% of people over 40 years old have degenerative disc disease while 80% of those over 80 years of age have it. 10% to 20% of people with lumbar disc degeneration and up to 30% of those with disc degeneration in the cervical spine will not respond to non-surgical treatments. (1) Degenerative disc disease is reported to start as early as in the second decade of life. (2) The artificial disc replacement has been around for a while. An early analysis of its use and efficacy stated that about 5% of DDD patients were eligible for it. Additionally, the review reported that lumbar artificial disc replacement was 79% better than lumbar spine fusion with a major complication rate of 0% to 13% per implanted device. The rate of major complications at 2 years post-surgery varied from 0% to 8.1% per implant. Adjacent segment disease was stated to be 2% in an 11-year-follow-up study, but not definitive in the clinical trial data. (1) Minster Chiropractic Center sees post-surgical neck pain patients experiencing such adjacent segment disease seek our Minster chiropractic care not uncommonly.
ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE AFTER CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY
Spine literature has recently addressed the concern expressed in the study above about adjacent segment disease, degenerative changes at spinal segments directly next to a spinal fusion or disc implant region. The cause for such pain is described as potentially resulting from altered stresses on the adjacent levels after such procedures. In an article geared toward primary care practitioners who see post-surgical patients with spinal pain, one such patient who presently had neck pain and cervical arm pain radiculopathy after a history of having had anterior cervical disectomy and spinal fusion surgery 30 years ago for DDD. This patient had 34 sessions of chiropractic care – a combination of cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression, soft-tissue mobilization and therapeutic ultrasound – reported relief. (3) Minster Chiropractic Center uses flexion distraction decompression procedures to gently treat post-surgical Minster neck pain.
POST-CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY NECK PAIN
Researchers wrote that cervical spine surgeries for degenerative cervical spine conditions are increasing quickly and creating post-surgical pain syndromes: chronic pain, adjacent segment disease, recurrent disc herniation, facet join pain, and/or epidural scarring. Repeat surgeries may be advised though some patients are unable to or do not want to go through another surgery. Such patients may then consult with a practitioner who offers manual therapy for hoped relief. Because the clinical practice guidelines are composed but not very distinctly for post-cervical spine surgery management, researchers reviewed published papers to determine a path of care. Of 12 articles, 10 studies on conservative care reported favorable clinical outcomes. (4) That is hopeful! Minster Chiropractic Center shares this hope with our Minster neck pain patients who have undergone cervical spine surgery for degenerative disease and other issues causing neck pain. Our gentle spinal manipulation approach called Cox® Technic allows relieving, doctor-controlled treatment of your cervical spine.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Osterlitz on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how he treated a patient who found relief of his neck pain after a cervical spine surgery using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which may include nutritional advice to slow the degenerative disc disease.
Make your Minster chiropractic appointment now. Unwelcomed neck pain as a result of degenerative disc disease and/or adjacent segment disease after a cervical spine surgery may well find desired relief in your chiropractor’s hands.
