NECK PAIN THIS TIME OF YEAR?! THERE’S
HELP!
As
much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it’s a
pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic
care at our McHenry chiropractic clinic is gentle,
effective, and proven to ease pain in a fairly
brief period of time. Non-specific neck pain patients
reported that they felt improvement
in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation session.
(1) Even for more difficult cases (like the
following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management delivers
pain-relieving outcomes. One patient with neck pain due
to narrowing of the cervical spine foramen
and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported
decreased pain and improved function in 10 treatments
over a month. 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 stated that he
had reduced 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, described as a safe and less painful method to
ease chronic neck pain, concluded that manipulative
therapy decreases the degree of chronic neck pain
and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to undergo
care ‘forever’. A recent study wrote that chiropractors
do not recommend continued care apart from certain neck pain
patients: only 39% of
patients were recommended for care beyond 4 weeks
with long duration of neck pain being the strongest guide
for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for McHenry
neck pain whether it is acute or chronic, going into
the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck
pain patients walk into OrthoIllinois Chiropractic every day! We are ready
to help each of them find a little more JOY of
the season!
McHenry CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want sustained McHenry
pain relief 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 reduced neck
disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7)
These are simple exercises that do not
take long to do or to have a positive 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.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Be sure you have your next McHenry
chiropractic visit at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic scheduled in your holiday
plans!
We
wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!
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