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March 2023 Healthy News from Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Failed Back Surgery Back Pain Relief with Gentle Spinal Manipulation Take Your Vitamin D!

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FAILED BACK SURGERY BACK PAIN RELIEF
 
Gentle spinal manipulation for back pain that stays or comes back after back surgery - sometimes called persistent post-surgical pain or post-surgical continued pain -  is demonstrating effectiveness. And Cox® Technic as utilized at our Auburn chiropractic clinic is receiving attention for its pain-relieving outcomes! So have you undergone back surgery? Do you still suffer with back pain…or has it come back? You are not alone, especially in wishing the pain would just go away and never return. Some will opt for more medical options like surgery or pain meds or physical therapy, etc. Others will try to find non-medical options like spinal manipulation. A new meta-analysis of published data on the kinds of spinal manipulation employed to treat back pain patients with persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery concluded that spinal manipulation practitioners elected to use potentially gentler non-thrust techniques – 85% chose flexion-distraction (aka Cox® Technic) – over thrust techniques. (1) A published study of 69 post-surgical patients managed with Cox® Technic recorded 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% at the end of care and 70% at 2-year-follow-up. The relief lasted! (2) The frustration of back pain is understandable. The frustration of back pain after back surgery that was hoped to eliminate it is even more frustrating. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. offers Cox® Technic to decrease 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 help his patient felt with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

image of Auburn low back pain and lumbar disc degeneration helped with higher levels of vitamin D

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 associated with better physical performance in low back pain (LBP) sufferers with lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). Researchers measured vitamin D levels and muscle strength in 200 participants. Those low in vitamin D required more time in the gait speed, chair stand, and timed-up-and-go (TUG) tests. (3) Postmenopausal women with vitamin D deficiency (particularly those with less than 10 ng/mL which marked severe LDD and LBP) are documented to have LBP and LDD. If they smoked, had a high body mass index, osteoporosis, and no D supplementation, the moderate to severe pain was increased. (4) Another report stated that frailty status and physical performance measures (gait speed and TUG) were significantly linked to vitamin D concentration. (5) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. asks: What’s your vitamin D level? Time to check it!

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