Back surgery isn’t always required to get rid
of back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that 0.8% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or
spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require?
Pain relief. Reassurance and knowledge of their condition.
Gentle treatment. A solid treatment plan. Spinal Care Clinic has
such a plan for Burlington and Hamilton
post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose
your term!) patients that integrates safe, doctor-directed,
patient-involved 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 fell from 43.8
to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal
chiropractic care with flexion-distraction among the treatments),
48% sustained their improvement, 42% had
a recurrence, 10% were inaccessible for follow
up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain
patients documented 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 reported for any of the postsurgical
patients in this review with the mean
number of treatments being 14. Chiropractic care consisted
of 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 delivered care via
protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or greater
relief of pain at the end of active care was recorded
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 continued pain
relief of more 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 attained for 81% of
patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Burlington and Hamilton back pain sufferers
who have already experienced back surgery may welcome
these outcomes for themselves! Spinal Care Clinic is ready to help.
UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To commit to a plan, all involved must know what is going to happen to bring about pain
relief. One study measured the short-term
effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal elements
of sufferers with lumbar degenerative disc
disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was enlarged 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 increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired
and documented changes with gentle, safe Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic care.
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
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 had back pain.
Make your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic
appointment now. Back surgery is not the only option
for many with back pain. And for those who have previously had
back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may ultimately
produce the pain relief you want.