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Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Offers Relieving Care for Post-Surgical Neck Pain

Neck pain anytime is not welcome. Neck pain after neck surgery is particularly unwelcome…by the patient and the treating physician! Gentle manual treatment of post-surgical neck pain and any adjacent-to-the-surgical-level-segment spinal pain issues at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. helps many Auburn neck pain sufferers find neck pain relief.

DDD

Degenerative disc disease (DDD) - the wear and tear of one or more spinal discs – shows itself as low back pain and neck and arm pain. 40% of people over 40 years old have degenerative disc disease while 80% of those over 80 years of age have it. 10% to 20% of people with disc degeneration in the lumbar spine and up to 30% of those with disc degeneration in the cervical spine will not respond to non-surgical treatments. (1) Degenerative disc disease is documented to start as early as in the second decade of life. (2) The artificial disc replacement has been around for a while. An early review of its use and efficacy stated that about 5% of DDD patients were appropriate for it. Further, the review stated that lumbar artificial disc replacement was 79% better than lumbar spine fusion with a major complication rate of 0% to 13% per implanted device. The rate of major complications at 2 years post-surgery went from 0% to 8.1% per implant. Adjacent segment disease was said to be 2% in one 11-year-follow-up study, but not conclusive in the clinical trial data. (1) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. sees post-surgical neck pain patients with such adjacent segment disease pursue our Auburn chiropractic care not uncommonly.

ADJACENT SEGMENT DISEASE AFTER CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY

Spine literature has recently published studies regarding the concern conveyed in the prior study about adjacent segment disease, degenerative changes at spinal segments directly next to a spinal fusion or disc implant area. The cause for such pain is explained as potentially arising from altered stresses on the neigboring levels after such procedures. In an article geared toward primary care practitioners who care for post-surgical patients with spinal pain, one such patient who presently had neck pain and cervical arm pain radiculopathy after a history of having had anterior cervical disectomy and spinal fusion surgery 30 years ago for DDD. This patient had 34 sessions of chiropractic care – a combination of cervical manipulation, flexion distraction decompression, soft-tissue mobilization and therapeutic ultrasound – stated that they had relief. (3) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. uses flexion distraction decompression procedures to gently treat post-surgical Auburn neck pain.

POST-CERVICAL SPINE SURGERY NECK PAIN

Researchers wrote that cervical spine surgeries for degenerative cervical spine conditions are increasing swiftly and leaving in their wake post-surgical pain syndromes: chronic pain, adjacent segment disease, recurrent disc herniation, facet join pain, and/or epidural scarring. Repeat surgeries may be advised though some patients are unable to or unwilling to undergo another surgery. Such patients may then turn to manual therapy for desired relief. Due to the fact that the clinical practice guidelines are written but not very clearly for post-cervical spine surgery management, researchers analyzed published papers to determine a path of care. Of 12 articles, 10 studies on conservative care reported favorable clinical outcomes. (4) That is hopeful! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. shares this hope with our Auburn neck pain patients who have undergone cervical spine surgery for degenerative disease and other issues causing neck pain. Our gentle spinal manipulation approach called Cox® Technic provides relieving, doctor-controlled treatment of your cervical spine.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Chris Osterlitz on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses how he helped a patient find relief of his neck pain after a cervical spine surgery using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which may include nutritional advice to slow the degenerative disc disease.

Set up your Auburn chiropractic appointment now. Unwelcomed neck pain due to degenerative disc disease and/or adjacent segment disease after a cervical spine surgery may well find the hoped for relief in the hands of your chiropractor.

Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. offers gentle care for neck pain after neck surgery.
 
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