Toronto Chiropractic Relief for Back Pain After Surgery

March 28, 2017

Back surgery. It’s an option some choose to get relief of their back pain. About 50% of them report relief at one year later. What’s next? Another back surgery? Additional pain medications? A spine stimulator? Physical therapy? Chiropractic? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre would add chiropractic care as a viable option before back surgery, and Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre welcomes back pain patients to the Toronto back pain specialty practice even if they have already undergone back surgery and continued to have pain. Chiropractic is a non-surgical method to relieve Toronto spine pain, and Cox Technic is the chiropractic treatment protocol that offers much evidence-based research as its foundation with documented clinical outcomes of relieving and controlling back pain. Cox Technic fulfills Toronto back pain patients’ desire for relief. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre presents it to their Toronto back pain patients if they find themselves with post-surgical continued pain or the condition diagnosis of “failed back surgery syndrome” (FBSS).

Post Surgical Continued Pain Diagnosis

A FBSS diagnosis is certainly not one a post-surgical back pain patient wants to consider let alone experience. It happens though. Often another surgery isn’t the desired answer for these types of back pain sufferers. Often such a patient is referred for physical therapy, recommended medications or injections, even implanted with a spine stimulator. Often such a patient welcomes options beyond those medical approaches. Sometimes such a patient wishes he or she had tried something else before back surgery. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre stands ready with its Toronto chiropractic care to assist at any stage of the process of back pain and its relief.

Chiropractic Care for FBSS

Low back pain care with chiropractic shows itself to be equally effective as physical therapy with no serious adverse side-effects. This review report further states that “the decision to seek or to refer patients for chiropractic care should be based on patient preference and values.” (1) That is what evidence-based medicine is all about: seek out the best evidence from the research, seek care from the back pain specialist who is clinically adept, and meet patient expectations and preferences. That’s what chiropractic research continues to do: produce the research and publish the outcomes for the public to base its decision on what is best for managing their back pain.

Decision Making

How to decide though? When a surgeon proposes surgery or a pain medicine doctor offers medication or a physical therapist offers exercise or a chiropractor offers spinal manipulation in one form or another, how does the relief-seeking Toronto back pain patient decide? Have all of these providers present patients with impartial information about the potential benefits and risks of the options. (2) Everyone knows though that when the pain is intense, the first offer of relief is really appealing. Being human, the healthcare provider seeing a patient in pain wants to help that back pain patient get rid of the pain fast, too. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre certainly does. Our Toronto back pain sufferers are thankful when they get relief after care.

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So Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre shares these recent chiropractic-outcome articles with Toronto back pain patients: spinal manipulation relief for post-surgical continued pain patients and for post-implanted and currently wearing spinal stimulator patients. A study of 69 post-surgical continued pain patients, 80% of patients showed greater than 50% relief of pain at the end of care (3 months) in a mean of 49 days and 11 visits, and 78.6% reported 50% relief of pain at 24 months follow up. The percent of relief was 71.6% at 3 months and 70% at 24 months. (3) Then, researchers tell that no adverse effects from chiropractic manipulation or mobilization treatment applied to patients who have implanted spine stimulators for pain control are noted in their findings. (4) Finally, a post-surgical patient reacts positively to rehabilitation and Cox Technic spinal manipulation care, registering pain decreasing from 8 to 3 on a 10 point scale over 12 visits in 3 months. (5) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre observes that a combination approach for pain relief is often most beneficial for our Toronto chiropractic patients.

Every Toronto chiropractic patient is suited with his or her very own, personalized treatment plan that involves the following: combination of approaches as appropriate, interaction with fellow healthcare colleagues as necessary, presentation of the latest in clinical outcomes of care options existing, and support for you, our Toronto post-surgical continued back pain patient, all the way.

Schedule your Toronto chiropractic visit today.

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