The Plainville Back and Neck Pain Relief Wave

For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves is calming. For Plainville back pain and neck pain patients, feeling the wave of relief from pain can be the same if they understand it. For those who do not get that pain will come and go while healing, the wave of healing can be saddening. Layden Chiropractic helps our patients understand the wave of healing, know the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate the pain relief they experience.

DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN

Since back and neck pain experiences are complete with fluctuating symptoms as they get better, researchers tried to come up with a method to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by tracking 1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow. The largest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25% of the patients in it rating their pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (10 worst pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% with a pain rating of 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients were those disturbed more by pain than the others. (1) Instead of just describing and rating pain, researchers had patients describe their pain using a visual picture scale about their pain intensity and symptomatology over a year. The patient responses were quite similar in explaining the pain intensity but not so much for the symptoms and their characteristics. (2) Layden Chiropractic finds that everybody senses pain in somewhat different ways and that they find certain sorts of pain more annoying than others do. All of our Plainville chiropractic patients are distinctive!

THE HEALING “WAVE”

For 12 months, another study followed 1124 neck pain patients who saw a chiropractor. Neck pain patients experiencing “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over the year - and very minor pain stayed relatively stable. Those who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – had greater changes in their pain patterns. (3) This is the reason we inform our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more wavelike than a straight line. While healing, pain ebbs and flows. Going away more than it comes is a positive signal of healing and pain relief. Layden Chiropractic reminds our Plainville neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We’ll get there together!

CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS

Research such as described here regarding the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers reflects the on-going need for them to have partners like their chiropractors as well as general practitioners to manage it, understand it, and care for it. One researcher described how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now had neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease a condition often seen in spinal discs around the spinal level that underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound for resolution of pain. (4) Again, pain relief is rarely sudden, but rather systematic with treatment, coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief attained be it 50%, 70% or 90% as supported by the 50% Rule of Cox® Technic.

CONTACT Layden Chiropractic

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. John Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents patient cases that were difficultcomplex and yet found relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with time.

Schedule your Plainville chiropractic appointment today. Together, we’ll aim for the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.

Layden Chiropractic rides the wave of healing pain relief with our neck pain and back pain patients.  

« View All Featured Articles
"This information and website content is not intended to diagnose, guarantee results, or recommend specific treatment or activity. It is designed to educate and inform only. Please consult your physician for a thorough examination leading to a diagnosis and well-planned treatment strategy. See more details on the DISCLAIMER page. Content is reviewed by Dr. James M. Cox I."