The spine. Its five sections constitutes one spine, so it’s logical that treating one area might affect another. So fascinating. So recently published! New Hampshire Spine and Sport has a thing about new research, and this new research describes how treating the thoracic spine beneficially influences the status of the cervical spine. New Hampshire Spine and Sport is all for the two-for-one effect for spinal pain reduction! When problems of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are involved, Southern New Hampshire neck pain patients will be, too.
CERVICAL SPINE PAIN
Cervical spine pain may include neck pain as well as radiculopathy or cervical radicular pain down the arm. Such diseases of the cervical spine may trigger other issues, too. For example, patients with cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more incidence of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients tend to have a history of a cardiovascular event and show C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another intriguing report of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease concerning cervical spinal cord compression – discovered that patients evaluated the quality of their care based on satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, emphasize the importance of explaining to patients what they can expect to increase satisfaction: At 12 months after surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be improved (37%), may be the same (55%), or may deteriorate (7%). (2) Honesty is the best policy in life and in doctor-patient relationships. New Hampshire Spine and Sport presents its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected on day one. (ex: “Some days will be better than others as you heal. Healing comes when the good days start to exceed the poor ones.”) Southern New Hampshire chiropractic care with its gentle chiropractic adjusting – like with Cox® Technic – improves the odds of good days and more good days!
THORACIC SPINE ADJUSTING HELPS CERVICAL SPINE PAIN
Chiropractic treatment of the thoracic spine can be very gentle and pain-relieving not just for the thoracic spine but also the cervical spine. Thoracic spine thrust adjusting has been shown to ease cervical spine pain and improve disability. A current article tells of improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who experience cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most reported by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Adjacent cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Wonderful! There is that positive two-for-one effect again.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Deveau on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who using with Cox® Technic enhanced the neck and arm pain – and sleep - for a patient. There are a lot of 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!
Schedule a Southern New Hampshire chiropractic appointment at New Hampshire Spine and Sport for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement in the hands of your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor! Your chiropractor relishes caring for your spine and preserving the health of all its 5 sections.