Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center Treats Post-Back-Surgery Back Pain with Cox® Technic for Pain Relief

Back surgery isn’t always necessary to get rid of back pain. According to Adogwa et al, less than 1% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% require? Pain relief. An understanding of their condition. Gentle treatment. A sound treatment plan. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center has such a plan for Pensacola post-back-surgery, failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) patients that integrates safe, doctor-delivered, patient-involved chiropractic care via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

BACK PAIN RELIEF AFTER BACK SURGERY

Certain researchers in the medical profession want to discard their descriptive phrase “failed back surgical syndrome” for “persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2.” For such patients with pain after back surgery with a laminectomy, discectomy, or fusion who sought chiropractic spinal manipulation for relief, numeric pain rating scale (0-10/worst-pain scale) scores decreased from 6.6 to 0.6 and Oswestry Disability Index (0 to 100/worst-pain scale) scores dropped from 43.8 to 2.4. At 12 months’ post chiropractic care (multi-modal chiropractic care with flexion-distraction amid the treatments), 48% retained their improvement, 42% had a recurrence, 10% were unavailable for follow up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain patients recorded numeric pain score changes from 6.4 to 2.3 (on a 10 point scale) for a 4.1 drop in pain. No adverse events were noted for any of the postsurgical patients in this review with the mean number of treatments being 14. Chiropractic care integrated the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients who still had back pain after back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All delivered care via protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or more relief of pain at the end of active care was documented for 81% of the patients. The mean number of days of care was 49 days;treatments was 11. A 24-months’ follow up found that 56 patients were available. 78.6% of them had kept their pain relief of more than 50%. Mean pain relief at end of care was 71.6 and 70 at 2-years follow-up. 43% had not sought further care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 had further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back pain following back surgery was reached for 81% of patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Pensacola back pain sufferers who have already undergone back surgery may welcome these outcomes for themselves! Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center is prepared to help.

KNOWLEDGE OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES

To commit to a plan, all involved must be aware of what is going to happen to bring about pain relief. One study calculated the short-term effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal aspects of patients who have lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was enlarged from 6.32 to 6.93. Back pain decreased from 69.17 to 48.48. Lumbar spine mobility improved as it changed from 17.37 to 12.69 (bent over with fingers reaching for the floor). Passive straight leg raise increased from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired and documented changes with gentle, safe Pensacola chiropractic care.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. David Atiyeh on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a patient who’d undergone back surgery and still experienced back pain.

Make your Pensacola chiropractic appointment today. Back surgery isn’t the only option for many with back pain. And for those who have previously had back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may finally produce the pain relief you desire.

 
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center uses Cox® Technic to relieve back pain and improve function in post-back-pain patients as well as those with back pain who haven’t undergone back surgery.  
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