For many, seeing and hearing ocean waves
is calming. For Auburn back pain and
neck pain patients, experiencing the wave of healing pain relief can be the same if they understand it. For those who do not get that pain will come and go while healing, the wave of
healing can be upsetting. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. helps our
patients appreciate the wave of healing, know the research supporting our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate
the pain relief they get.
DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN
Since back and neck pain experiences are complete
with fluctuations of symptoms as they heal,
researchers have worked on a method
to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by studying
1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow.
The largest subgroup was “mild persistent fluctuating” with 25%
of the patients in it reporting pain as a 3.4 out of 10 (0 no pain). The “moderate episodic” group had 24% with a pain rating of 2.7. “Persistent fluctuating” pain patients
were those disturbed more by pain than the others. (1) Instead
of just defining and rating pain, researchers had
patients portray their pain using a visual picture scale about
their pain intensity and symptomatology over a year. The
patient responses were very similar in defining
the pain intensity but not as much for the symptoms and their
characteristics. (2) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. finds that everybody
senses pain in somewhat different ways
and that they find certain types of pain more annoying than others
do. All of our Auburn chiropractic patients are distinctive!
THE HEALING “WAVE”
For a year, another study tracked
1124 neck pain patients who saw a chiropractor. Neck pain patients
experiencing “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over the
year - and very minor pain stayed relatively stable. Those
who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – had greater changes in their pain patterns. (3) This is why we inform
our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more wavelike
than a straight line. While healing, pain comes and goes.
Going away more than it comes is a positive signal of
healing and pain relief. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. reminds our Auburn
neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We
will get there together!
CHIROPRACTIC IN MANAGING BACK AND NECK PAIN PATTERNS
Research such as described here regarding
the patterns of neck pain and back pain sufferers shows
the on-going need for them to have team members like their
chiropractors along with general practitioners to manage
it, understand it, and care for it. A researcher explained
how a patient who underwent spinal surgery 30 years ago now had
neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease – a condition
often seen in spinal discs around the spinal level that
underwent back surgery - was treated with cervical manipulation, flexion
distraction decompression (Cox®), soft-tissue mobilization, and therapeutic ultrasound
for pain relief. (4) Again, pain relief is seldom
sudden, but rather systematic with treatment,
coming/going pain intensity, patience, and appreciation for the relief gotten
be it 50%, 70% or 90% as explained by the 50% Rule of Cox®
Technic.
CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. John Murray on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he presents patient
cases that were complicated and yet found
relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management over
time.
Schedule your Auburn chiropractic
appointment now. Together, we’ll work toward
the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.
