Oxford Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where does chiropractic medicine fit in your life, in the lives of other Oxford folks? Let us start with where it fits in the lives of others for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Satterwhite Chiropractic
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Is that news to you? Likely as it requires numerous years for such innovative, proven concepts to filter to common knowledge. Some people (not our Oxford chiropractic clients!) think chiropractors are quacks when in fact chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic certainly is the Oxford back pain specialist!
Satterwhite Chiropractic welcomes back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Oxford chiropractic practice, particularly the more difficult cases! For instance, patients who have recurrent lumbar disc herniation are found to respond to non-surgical care and escape the necessity of reoperation. (3) Reports assert that from 9 to 33% of people receive spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those people see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The demand for chiropractic spine care is rising. A majority of neurosurgeons consider a minimum period of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What does such a Oxford neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Satterwhite Chiropractic is a possibility for pain relief. Another such study found that no conclusion is known as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is better for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs triggering the condition termed stenosis. To top it off, a high rate of adverse effects is stated in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were described for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a good idea. A study of 137 patients recommended to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not require surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to need surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Satterwhite Chiropractic has vast success in relieving low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Satterwhite Chiropractic employs a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which incorporates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves allowing normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper reporting flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A report of 674 emergency room adult visits showed that 500 (74.2%) patients had visited at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People choosing this form of care were quite a bit younger and tended to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Users were much more apt to believe that MBP prevented illness, treated illness, and was safe, more effective than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
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Listen to one of these PODCASTS about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation relieves back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have experienced back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a Oxford chiropractic appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic as you grow in the realization that chiropractors - like your Oxford chiropractor, a true Oxford back pain specialist – are recommended for the non-surgical treatment of Oxford spine pain and disability. Medicine now endorses spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, as first line treatment for spine pain.
