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Healthy News March 2023 Spinal Manipulation Relieves Back Pain After Back Surgery Take Your Vitamin D!

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Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that lingers or returns after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain - is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as used at our Largo chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-alleviating outcomes! So have you experienced back surgery? Do you still experience back pain…or has it returned? You are not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will opt for more medical selections like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will pursue non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation applied to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery concluded that spinal manipulation practitioners chose to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – instead of thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients handled with Cox® Technic documented that in 11 visits over a 49 day treatment timeframe 81% of the patients attained more than 50% relief of pain. The mean percent of relief was 71.6% when the active treatment time was done and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief continued! (2) The frustration of back pain is reasonable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Hollstrom & Associates Inc extends Cox® Technic to reduce the pain…and the frustration!

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Gary Stefanick on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief his patient got with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

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TIP OF THE MONTH: Another Reason to Be Up on Your Vitamin D! LBP And Disc Degeneration

Higher vitamin D levels were documented to be linked with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers calculated vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. It required more time for those who had low levels of vitamin D to perform these tests: gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women who had vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with below 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. Add in smoking, high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, and the moderate to severe pain was elevated. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly associated with vitamin D concentration. (5) Hollstrom & Associates Inc asks: How’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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