December 2023 Healthy News from Old Mill Chiropractic Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise
As much as the holiday season brings joy, for some it can be a pain in the neck. Old Mill Chiropractic is here to help! Chiropractic care at our St Peters chiropractic clinic is gentle, effective, and proven to alleviate pain in a reasonably brief timeframe. 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. A patient with neck pain due to narrowing of the cervical spine foramen and radiating arm pain due to a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported decreased pain and improved function in 10 treatments over 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 stated that he had less pain (which dropped from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits over 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published studies 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 lessens the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients don’t have to continue care ‘forever’. A new study stated 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 most commong guide for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for St Peters neck pain whether it’s 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 Old Mill Chiropractic daily! We are prepared to help each of them re-discover the JOY of the season!
St Peters CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!
Cervical spine pain patients who want St Peters pain relief - relief that lasts - often get it when they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program proved effective for non-specific neck pain lessening and better strength of cervical spine flexor and extensor muscles as well as scapular. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study tested and discovered that isometric exercises significantly lessened neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are straightforward exercises that don’t 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 dealing with neck and shoulder pain.
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Be sure to schedule your next St Peters chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!
We wish you a happy and joyful holiday season!