Back surgery isn’t always necessary to relieve back pain. Adogwa and colleagues reported that 0.8% of 497,822 lumbar spinal stenosis or
spondylolisthesis patients required back surgery. (1) What do the other 99% need?
Pain relief. An understanding of their condition.
Gentle treatment. A sound treatment plan. Layden Chiropractic has
such a plan for patients with Plainville post-back-surgery,
failed back surgery syndrome, continued back pain (choose your term!) that incorporates safe, doctor-delivered,
patient-engaged 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 abandon
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 pursued
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 fell from 43.8
to 2.4. At one year post chiropractic care (multi-modal
chiropractic care with flexion-distraction amid the treatments),
48% retained their improvement, 42% had
a recurrence, 10% were not available for follow
up. (2) A retrospective review of 32 cases of post-lumbar spine surgery pain
patients documented 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 documented for any of the postsurgical
patients in this review. The mean number of treatments was 14. Chiropractic care consisted
of the delivery of Cox® flexion distraction. (3) A prospective study of 69
post-surgical continued pain patients who reported back pain following
back surgery were treated by 15 chiropractors. All followed
protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. 50% or more
relief of pain at the end of active care was recorded
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 pursued more
care in 2 years. 32 patients had: 17 of them went through
chiropractic manipulation, 8 had PT, exercise, injections, and medication; 5 went
through further surgery. (Bottomline: Greater than 50% relief of back
pain following back surgery was attained for 81% of
patients in 11 visits over 49 days.) (4) Plainville back pain sufferers
who have already had back surgery may welcome
these outcomes for themselves! Layden Chiropractic is ready to help.
UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMECHANICAL CHANGES
To stick to a plan, all involved must understand what is going to happen to bring about pain
relief. A study assessed the short-term
effect of flexion distraction spinal manipulation on various spinal aspects
of patients with lumbar degenerative disc
disease (DDD). Intervertebral disc height was enlarged from
6.32 to 6.93. Back pain reduced 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 improved from 46.94 to 56.01. (5) These are desired
and documented changes with gentle, safe Plainville chiropractic care.
CONTACT Layden Chiropractic
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.
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic
appointment today. Back surgery is not the only choice
for many with back pain. And for those who have already had
back surgery, the non-surgical approach with chiropractic may ultimately
deliver the pain relief you want.