December 2023 Healthy News from Satterwhite Chiropractic Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
Joy! Joy! Joy! That’s this time of year…for most of us. For some it’s a pain in the neck. Satterwhite Chiropractic is here to help! Chiropractic care at our Oxford chiropractic clinic is gentle, effective, and proven to ease pain in a fairly short timeframe. Non-specific neck pain patients reported that they felt that their neck disability was improved after one cervical spine manipulation treatment. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management provides pain-relieving results. One patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported decreased pain and better function in 10 visits in 4 weeks. The patient was pain free and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain reported less pain (which fell from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits in 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published papers on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, depicted to be a safe and less painful method to ease chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy lowers the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo care ‘forever’. A recent study documented that chiropractors don’t recommend continued care except for certain types of neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were recommended for care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the most commong guide for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Oxford neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, radiating into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into this Oxford chiropractic office every day! We are ready to help each one re-discover the JOY of the season!
Oxford CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want Oxford pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it once they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain lessening and better strength of cervical spine flexor, extensor and scapular muscles. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study found that isometric exercises significantly lessened neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are straightforward exercises that do not take long to do or to have a beneficial effect on neck pain. So good!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure to schedule your next Oxford chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
We wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!