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December 2023 Healthy News from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Relieving Neck Pain Treatment & Exercise

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NECK PAIN THIS TIME OF YEAR?! THERE’S HELP!

Joy! Joy! Joy! That’s this time of year…for most of us. For some it can be a pain in the neck. We’re|We are here to help! Chiropractic care at our Carrolltown chiropractic clinic is gentle, effective, and proven to be relieving in a fairly short period of time. Non-specific neck pain patients reported that they felt improvement in their neck disability after one cervical spine manipulation session. (1) Even for more difficult cases (like the following), The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management delivers pain-relieving results. One patient with cervical spine foraminal narrowing and radiating arm pain as an effect of a C6-C7 cervical disc herniation reported reduced pain and improved function in 10 visits in a month. The patient was without pain and fully functional 8 months later. (2) Another patient with a post-surgical C6-7 fusion experiencing neck pain and back pain reported less pain (which fell from 8/10 to 3/10) in 12 visits in 3 months with Cox® treatment. (3) A review of published studies on the effectiveness of manual therapy for chronic neck pain, described as a safe and less painful method to ease chronic neck pain, proposed that manipulative therapy lowers the degree of chronic neck pain and neck disability. (4) And most patients do not have to continue care ‘forever’. A new study documented that chiropractors don’t recommend continued care apart from certain neck pain patients: only 39% of patients were proposed to continue care beyond 4 weeks with long duration of neck pain being the strongest indicator for continued care. (5) Our Cox® Technic treatment plan for cervical spine pain is gentle and effective for Carrolltown neck pain whether it’s acute or chronic, radiating into the shoulder or down the arm or centralized to the neck. This time of year, neck pain patients walk into this Carrolltown chiropractic office daily! We are ready to help each of them find a little more JOY of the season!

 

Carrolltown CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise those Neck Muscles!

Cervical spine pain patients who want sustained Carrolltown pain relief often get it once they add exercise. A simple elastic band exercise program was shown to be effective for non-specific neck pain decrease and improved strength of cervical spine flexor, extensor and scapular muscles. (6) To improve neck pain and disability effects, a study found that isometric exercises significantly reduced neck disability index scores after 4 weeks for cervical spondylosis patients. (7) These are simple exercises that do not take long to do or to have a positive effect on neck pain. So good!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hilary Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson  about her pain-relieving chiropractic treatment plan via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for a male patient suffering with neck and shoulder pain.

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Be sure to schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic visit with us scheduled in your holiday plans!

Happy and joy-filled holidays to you and yours from Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

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