Fort Wayne Chiropractic Patients Use Chiropractic for Spine Care
Where does chiropractic medicine fit in your life, in the lives of other Fort Wayne folks? Let’s start with where it is in the lives of others for spine care, back pain relief, and neck pain relief at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic
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) Have you heard that before? Not likely because it is known to take numerous years for such up-to-date, proven concepts to filter to common knowledge. There are even people who (not our Fort Wayne chiropractic clients!) think chiropractors are quacks when in fact chiropractors are non-surgical back spine specialists. Your Fort Wayne chiropractor at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic certainly is the Fort Wayne back pain specialist!
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic invites back pain, neck pain and spine pain patients to our Fort Wayne chiropractic office, particularly the painful cases! For example, patients who have recurrent lumbar disc herniation are found to respond to non-surgical care and avoid the need for reoperation. (3) Reports state that from 9 to 33% of people receive spinal manipulation for pain and disability and 98% of those people see chiropractors. (4)
DEMAND FOR CHIROPRACTIC GROWS
The call for chiropractic spine care is growing. A majority of neurosurgeons think that a minimum time 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 Fort Wayne neck pain patient do? Chiropractic care at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is a possibility for pain relief. Another such study found that no conclusion is drawn as to whether surgical or nonsurgical treatment is superior for individuals with lumbar spine degeneration of discs causing the condition termed stenosis. To top it off, a high rate of adverse effects is reported 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 worthy idea. A study of 137 patients recommended 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 need surgery, the type of surgery was changed in 28% of the patients. (7) Chiropractic spinal manipulation as used at Aaron Chiropractic Clinic has substantial success in relieving low back and neck pain and leg and arm pain. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic employs a spinal manipulation technique known as Cox Technic Flexion Distraction Decompression which integrates 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 revealed that 500 (74.2%) patients had used at least one mind body practitioner (MBP), defined as a chiropractor, acupuncturist, yoga, or meditation practitioner. People choosing this form of care were significantly younger and more likely to have private health insurance. 33% saw a chiropractor. Users were much more likely 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 helps 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 Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic as you grow in the realization that chiropractors - like your Fort Wayne chiropractor, a true Fort Wayne back pain specialist – are recommended for the non-surgical treatment of Fort Wayne spine pain and disability. Medicine now recommends spinal manipulation, chiropractic’s forte, as first line treatment for spine pain.
