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 makes sense that treating one area might affect another. So fascinating. So recently published! Satterwhite Chiropractic likes new research, and this new research presents 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 concerned, Oxford neck pain patients will be, too.
CERVICAL SPINE PAIN
Cervical spine pain may involve neck pain as well as radiculopathy or cervical radicular pain down the arm. Cervical spine related diseases like this may trigger other issues, too. For example, patients with cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more incidence of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients are apt to have a history of a cardiovascular event and exhibit C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another intriguing study of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease involving cervical spinal cord compression – found that patient evaluation of the quality of care they received comes down to satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, emphasize the importance of telling patients what to expect to boost satisfaction: At 12 months following surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be better (37%), may be the same (55%), or may deteriorate (7%). (2) Honesty is the best policy in life and in doctor-patient relationships. Satterwhite Chiropractic presents its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected upfront. (ex: “Some days will be better than others as you heal. Healing comes when the good days begin to exceed the poor ones.”) Oxford chiropractic care with its 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 demonstrated to improve cervical spine pain and improve disability. A recent article describes improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients with cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most reported by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Adjacent cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Wonderful! 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 improved the neck and arm pain – as well as sleep - for a patient. There are so many 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 delights in caring for your spine and maintaining the health of all its five sections.
