Layden Chiropractic Offers Relieving Care for Post-Surgical Neck Pain

Neck pain anytime is not welcome. Neck pain after neck surgery is particularly 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 conditions at Layden Chiropractic helps many Plainville neck pain sufferers find neck pain relief.

DDD

Degenerative disc disease (DDD) - the deterioration 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 age 80 have it. 10% to 20% of people with lumbar disc degeneration and up to 30% of those with disc degeneration in the cervical spine will not respond to non-surgical treatments. (1) Degenerative disc disease is documented as starting in the second decade of life. (2) The artificial disc replacement has existed for some time. An early analysis of its use and efficacy indicated that about 5% of DDD patients were appropriate for it. Further, the review stated that lumbar artificial disc replacement was 79% superior to 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 ranged from 0% to 8.1% per implant. Adjacent segment disease was stated to be 2% in an 11-year-follow-up study, but not definitive in the clinical trial data. (1) Layden Chiropractic finds that post-surgical neck pain patients experiencing such adjacent segment disease seek our Plainville chiropractic care not uncommonly.

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE AFTER CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY

Spine literature has recently published studies regarding the concern expressed in the prior study about adjacent segment disease, degenerative changes at spinal segments directly next to a spinal fusion or disc implant region. The cause for such pain is described as potentially arising from altered stresses on the adjacent levels after such procedures. In an article written for an audience of primary care practitioners who care for post-surgical patients with spinal pain, one such patient who presently had neck pain and cervical arm pain radiculopathy after a history of having had anterior cervical disectomy and spinal fusion surgery 30 years prior for DDD. This patient had 34 sessions of chiropractic care – a mix of cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression, soft-tissue mobilization and therapeutic ultrasound – reported relief. (3) Layden Chiropractic uses flexion distraction decompression procedures to gently treat post-surgical Plainville 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 recommended though some patients are not able to or don’t want to undergo another surgery. Such patients may then turn to manual therapy for hoped relief. Due to the fact that the clinical practice guidelines are written but not very clearly for post-cervical spine surgery management, researchers analyzed published papers to determine a path of care. Of 12 articles, 10 studies on conservative care recounted favorable clinical outcomes. (4) That is hopeful! Layden Chiropractic imparts this hope with our Plainville 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 allows relieving, doctor-controlled 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 discusses how he helped a patient find 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.

Make your Plainville chiropractic appointment soon. Unwelcomed neck pain due to degenerative disc disease and/or adjacent segment disease after a cervical spine surgery may well find the hoped for relief in your chiropractor’s hands.

Layden Chiropractic offers gentle treatment for neck pain after neck surgery.
 
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