Can Chiropractic Relieve Neck Pain? Oxford Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Treatment Helps Ease Neck and Arm Pain.

The spine. Its five sections form one spine, so it’s logical that treating one area might affect another. So fascinating. So recently published! Satterwhite Chiropractic enjoys new research, and this new research indicates that treating the thoracic spine beneficially affects the status of the cervical spine. Satterwhite Chiropractic is completely in favor of the two-for-one effect for spinal pain decrease! When issues of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are involved, Oxford neck pain patients will be, too.

CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Cervical spine pain may include neck pain as well as radiculopathy or cervical radicular pain down the arm. Such diseases of the cervical spine may trigger other issues, too. For example, patients who have cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more incidence of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients are likely to have a history of a cardiovascular event and exhibit C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another interesting report of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease concerning cervical spinal cord compression – discovered that patients evaluated the quality of their care based on satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, reiterate the importance of explaining to patients what they can expect to increase satisfaction: At 12 months after surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be improved (37%), may remain the same (55%), or may decline (7%). (2) Honesty is the best way in life and in doctor-patient relationships. Satterwhite Chiropractic shares its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected upfront. (ex: “Some days will be nicer than others as you heal. Healing happens when the good days begin to exceed the poor ones.”) Oxford chiropractic care incorporating gentle chiropractic adjusting – like with Cox® Technic – improves the odds of good days and more good days!

THORACIC SPINE ADJUSTING HELPS CERVICAL SPINE PAIN

Chiropractic treatment of the thoracic spine can be very gentle and pain-relieving not just for the thoracic spine but also the cervical spine. Thoracic spine thrust adjusting has been shown to ease cervical spine pain and enhance disability. A recent article tells of improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who experience cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most stated by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Neighboring cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Amazing! There is that beneficial two-for-one effect again.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Deveau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who using with Cox® Technic enhanced the neck and arm pain – and sleep - for a patient. There are a lot of 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!

Schedule a Oxford chiropractic appointment at Satterwhite Chiropractic for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement in the hands of your Oxford chiropractor! Your chiropractor relishes caring for your spine and maintaining the health of all its five sections.

Satterwhite Chiropractic values the whole spine and that treating one section of the spine (thoracic) eases pain in another (cervical)! 
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