For many, ocean waves are calming. For Millville back pain and
neck pain patients, feeling the wave of relief from
pain can be the same if they are aware of it. For those who do not get that pain will come and go while healing, the wave of
healing can be upsetting. Wilson Family Chiropractic helps our
patients understand the wave of healing, are
aware of the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate
the pain relief they get.
DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN
Since back and neck pain experiences are filled
with fluctuating symptoms as they heal,
researchers have worked on a way
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 (0 no pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% reporting
pain at a 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients
were those bothered 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 very similar in explaining
the pain intensity but not as much for the symptoms and their
characteristics. (2) Wilson Family Chiropractic observes that everybody
senses pain in slightly different ways
and that they find certain sorts of pain more annoying than others
do. All of our Millville chiropractic patients are unique!
THE HEALING “WAVE”
For 12 months, another study followed
1124 neck pain patients seeing a chiropractor. Neck pain patients
having “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over the
year - and very minor pain remained 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 forewarn
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. Wilson Family Chiropractic reminds our Millville
neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We
will get there together!
CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS
Research such as explained here regarding
the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers reflects
the on-going need for them to have team members like their
chiropractors as well as general practitioners to handle
it, understand it, and care for it. One researcher described
how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now experienced
neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease – a condition
often seen in spinal discs above and below a spinal level that
underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion
distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound
for pain relief. (4) Again, pain relief is rarely
sudden, but rather systematic with treatment,
coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief gotten
be it 50%, 70% or 90% as supported by the 50% Rule of Cox®
Technic.
CONTACT Wilson Family 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 complicated and yet attained
relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with
time.
Schedule your Millville chiropractic
appointment today. Together, we will work toward
the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.
