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Healthy News March 2023 Spinal Manipulation Relieves Back Pain After Back Surgery Take Your Vitamin D!

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Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as utilized at our Millville chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-alleviating outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still suffer with back pain…or has it come back? You’re not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will choose more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will seek non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the types of spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery reported that spinal manipulation practitioners chose to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients treated with Cox® Technic recorded that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment period 81% of the patients attained more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% at the end of care and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is reasonable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Wilson Family Chiropractic offers Cox® Technic to decrease the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he details the help his patient experienced with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be linked with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers calculated vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 patients. It took more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who had vitamin D deficiency (especially those with below 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are noted to have LBP and LDD. Add in smoking, high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, and the moderate to severe pain was more. (4) Another report indicated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Wilson Family Chiropractic asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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