Where does chiropractic medicine fit in your life, in the lives of other Southern New Hampshire folks? Let’s start with where it is in others’ lives for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at New Hampshire Spine and Sport
SPINAL MANIPULATION IS RECOMMENDED
Chiropractic spinal manipulation is recommended for at least 12 weeks before referral for spine surgery for lumbar disc herniation. (1) The American Medical Association, the American Pain Society, the American College of Physicians and Harvard Medical School all state spinal manipulation and chiropractic are first line care for low back pain. (2) Did you know that? Probably not as it takes numerous years for such innovative, proven ideas to filter to general knowledge. There are even people who (not our Southern New Hampshire chiropractic clients!) think chiropractors are quacks when actually chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor at New Hampshire Spine and Sport certainly is the Southern New Hampshire back pain specialist!
New Hampshire Spine and Sport welcomes back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Southern New Hampshire chiropractic practice, particularly the more difficult cases! For example, patients who experience recurrent lumbar disc herniation are found to respond to non-surgical care and avoid the need for reoperation. (3) Reports say that from 9 to 33% of people receive spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those who do get spinal manipulation see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The demand for chiropractic spine care is rising. A majority of neurosurgeons think that a minimum duration of 8 to 12 weeks of radicular arm pain is the best timing before performing surgery for cervical spine disc herniation. (5) What does such a Southern New Hampshire neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at New Hampshire Spine and Sport is an option for pain relief. Another similar study found that no conclusion is drawn as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is better for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs causing the condition termed stenosis. Further, a high rate of adverse effects is stated in three of five surgical groups while no side effects were reported for any of the conservative treatment options. (6)
SECOND OPINION IS VALUABLE
A second opinion before spine surgery is a sound idea. A study of 137 patients proposed to have lumbar spine fusion at one institution found on second opinion at a multidisciplinary clinic that 58% did not require surgery but rather non-surgical treatment. Of those found to require surgery, the type of surgery was changed for 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at New Hampshire Spine and Sport has vast success in relieving low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. New Hampshire Spine and Sport employs a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which incorporates placing the spine under distraction to decompress nerves permitting normal spine motion to return. An example is a paper reporting flexion–distraction spinal manipulation used to relieve an L4-L5 disk extrusion causing L5 nerve root radiculopathy in a 40 year old naval officer. (8)
MIND-BODY PRACTITIONERS (INCLUDING CHIROPRACTORS) HELP
A report of 674 emergency room adult visits showed that 500 (74.2%) patients had visited at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People choosing this form of care were quite a bit younger and tended to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Such healthcare consumers were much more apt to believe that MBP prevented illness, treated illness, and was safe, more successful than prescription medicines, supportive of prescription medications, and more holistic. (9)
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Listen to a PODCAST about how Cox Technic spinal manipulation benefits back pain patients after back surgery (and even multiple back surgeries), patients who have struggled with back pain for a long time, and patients with low back and leg pain (sciatica).
Schedule a Southern New Hampshire chiropractic appointment with New Hampshire Spine and Sport as you come to realize that chiropractors - like your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor, a true Southern New Hampshire back pain specialist – are appropriate for the non-surgical treatment of Southern New Hampshire spine pain and disability. Medicine now recommends spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, as first line treatment for spine pain.