Can Chiropractic Relieve Neck Pain? Richmond Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Treatment Helps Ease Neck and Arm Pain.

The spine. Its five sections constitutes one spine, so it’s logical that treating one section might affect another. So interesting. So newly published! Johnson Chiropractic likes new research, and this new research suggests that treating the thoracic spine positively affects the status of the cervical spine. Johnson Chiropractic is completely in favor of the two-for-one effect for spinal pain decrease! When conditions of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are concerned, Richmond 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. Cervical spine related diseases like this may elicit other issues, too. For example, patients who have cervical spine spinal cord disease have three times more incidence of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients are likely to have a history of a cardiovascular event and show C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another interesting report of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease involving cervical spinal cord compression – discovered that patient evaluation of the quality of care they received comes down to satisfaction. The research findings, therefore, emphasize the significance of telling patients what they can expect to enhance 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 way in life and in doctor-patient interactions. Johnson Chiropractic presents its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected upfront. (ex: “Some days will be better than others as you heal. Healing comes when the good days start to exceed the poor ones.”) Richmond chiropractic care including 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 quite 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 enhance disability. A current article describes improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who have 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! Amazing! There is that beneficial 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 numerous 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!

Schedule a Richmond chiropractic appointment at Johnson Chiropractic for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement in the hands of your Richmond chiropractor! Your chiropractor relishes caring for your spine and preserving the health of all its five sections.