Can Chiropractic Relieve Neck Pain? Toronto Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Treatment Helps Ease Neck and Arm Pain.
The spine. Its five sections form one spine, so it’s logical that treating one section might affect another. So interesting. So newly published! Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre loves new research, and this new research suggests that treating the thoracic spine beneficially influences the status of the cervical spine. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is completely in favor of the two-for-one effect for spinal pain decrease! When conditions of cervical spine myelopathy and disc herniation are involved, Toronto neck pain patients will be, too.
CERVICAL SPINE PAIN
Cervical spine pain may involve 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 with cervical spine spinal cord disease have 3 times more incidence of having cardiovascular disease. Rapidly progressive cervical spine myelopathy patients tend to have a history of a cardiovascular event and exhibit C4/5 disc hyperintensity on T2-MRI images. (1) Another interesting report of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy - a progressive spine disease concerning cervical spinal cord compression – found 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 boost satisfaction: At 12 months after surgery for neck degenerative myelopathy, the relief of pain and function issues may be better (37%), may be the same (55%), or may decline (7%). (2) Honesty is the best policy in life and in doctor-patient relationships. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre presents its proposed treatment’s expected outcomes as well as the course of healing to be expected on day one. (ex: “Some days will be nicer than others as you heal. Healing comes when the good days begin to exceed the poor ones.”) Toronto chiropractic care incorporating 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 demonstrated to improve cervical spine pain and improve disability. A recent article describes improvements in pain, disability, cervical spine range of motion, and deep neck flexor endurance in patients who experience cervical spine radiculopathy after just one treatment. These changes were most stated by patients 48 to 72 hours after treatment. (3) Adjacent cervical and thoracic spine sections feed off of each other’s care! Wonderful! 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 – as well as sleep - for a patient. There are a lot of 2-for-1 benefits of chiropractic care!
Schedule a Toronto chiropractic appointment at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre for a two-for-one benefit of pain reduction and spinal range of motion improvement with Toronto chiropractic care! Your chiropractor delights in caring for your spine and preserving the health of all its 5 sections.
