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Vancouver Disc Centers Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief

Back surgery isn’t always necessary to get rid of back pain. According to Adogwa et al, less than 1% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% need? Pain relief. Reassurance and knowledge of their condition. Gentle treatment. A solid treatment plan. Vancouver Disc Centers has such a plan for suffererers Vancouver post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-delivered, patient-engaged chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY

Certain researchers in the medical profession want to discard their descriptive phrase “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with post-surgical pain after a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who pursued chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 43.8 to 2.4. At 12 months’ post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among the treatments), 48% retained their improvement, 42% had a recurrence, 10% were unavailable for follow up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain patients noted numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to 2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse events were seen for any of the postsurgical patients in this review. The mean number of treatments was 14. Chiropractic care integrated the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain following back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All followed protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or greater relief of pain at the end of active care was documented for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments was 11. A 24-months’ follow up found that 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had kept their pain relief greater than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not pursued more care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 had further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back pain following back surgery was reached for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Vancouver back pain sufferers who have already undergone back surgery may welcome these outcomes for themselves! Vancouver Disc Centers is prepared to help.

UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES

To stick to a plan, all involved must be aware of what is going to happen to affect a change in pain. A study assessed the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements of patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was increased from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain decreased from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility recovered as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers stretching toward the floor). Passive straight leg raise improved from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Vancouver chiropractic care.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Atiyeh on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d gone through back surgery and still experienced back pain.

Make your Vancouver chiropractic appointment now. Back surgery isn’t the only choice for many with back pain. And for those who have previously undergone back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may ultimately produce the pain relief you desire.

 
Vancouver Disc Centers uses Cox® Technic to relieve back pain and improve function in post-back-pain patients as well as those with back pain who haven’t undergone back surgery.  
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