Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center Offers Relieving Care for Post-Surgical Neck Pain

Neck pain anytime is not welcome. Neck pain after neck surgery is especially unwelcome…by the patient and the treating physician! Gentle manual treatment of post-surgical neck pain and any adjacent-to-the-surgical-level-segment spinal pain issues at Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center helps many Pensacola neck pain sufferers get neck pain relief.

DDD

Degenerative disc disease (DDD) - the wear and tear of one or more spinal discs – shows itself as low back pain and neck and arm pain. 40% of people over 40 years old have degenerative disc disease while 80% of those over 80 years of age have it. 10% to 20% of people with disc degeneration in the lumbar spine and up to 30% of those with cervical disc degeneration will not respond to non-surgical treatments. (1) Degenerative disc disease is documented to start as early as in the second decade of life. (2) The artificial disc replacement has existed for a while. An early review of its use and efficacy stated that about 5% of DDD patients were appropriate for it. Further, the review reported that lumbar artificial disc replacement was 79% better than lumbar spine fusion with a major complication rate of 0% to 13% per implanted device. The rate of major complications at 2 years post-surgery varied from 0% to 8.1% per implant. Adjacent segment disease was said to be 2% in an 11-year-follow-up study, but not definitive in the clinical trial data. (1) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center finds that post-surgical neck pain patients experiencing such adjacent segment disease seek our Pensacola chiropractic care not uncommonly.

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE AFTER CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY

Spine literature has recently addressed the concern conveyed in the study above about adjacent segment disease, degenerative changes at spinal segments immediately next to a spinal fusion or disc implant region. The cause for such pain is explained as potentially arising from altered stresses on the adjoining levels after such procedures. In an article written for an audience of primary care practitioners who see post-surgical patients with spinal pain, one such patient who presently had neck pain and cervical arm pain radiculopathy with a history of having undergone anterior cervical disectomy and spinal fusion surgery 30 years earlier for DDD. This patient underwent 34 sessions of chiropractic care – a combination of cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression, soft-tissue mobilization and therapeutic ultrasound – reported relief. (3) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center uses flexion distraction decompression procedures to gently address post-surgical Pensacola neck pain.

POST-CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY NECK PAIN

Researchers wrote that cervical spine surgeries for degenerative cervical spine conditions are rising quickly and leaving in their wake post-surgical pain syndromes: chronic pain, adjacent segment disease, recurrent disc herniation, facet join pain, and/or epidural scarring. Repeat surgeries may be advised though some patients are unable to or don’t want to go through another surgery. Such patients may then turn to manual therapy for hoped relief. Due to the fact that the clinical practice guidelines are composed but not very distinctly for post-cervical spine surgery management, researchers reviewed published papers to determine a path of care. Of 12 articles, 10 studies on conservative care reported favorable clinical outcomes. (4) That is hopeful! Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center shares this hope with our Pensacola neck pain patients who have had cervical spine surgery for degenerative disease and other issues causing neck pain. Our gentle spinal manipulation approach called Cox® Technic provides relieving, doctor-monitored treatment of your cervical spine.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Osterlitz on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how he treated a patient who found relief of his neck pain after a cervical spine surgery following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which may include nutritional advice to slow the degenerative disc disease.

Schedule your Pensacola chiropractic appointment today. Unwelcomed neck pain as a result of degenerative disc disease and/or adjacent segment disease after a cervical spine surgery may well find desired relief in the hands of your chiropractor.

Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center offers gentle care for neck pain after neck surgery.
 
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