For many, ocean waves are calming. For Orchard Park, NY back pain and
neck pain patients, experiencing the wave of healing pain relief can be the same if they understand it. For those who don’t get that pain waxes
and wanes while healing, the wave of
healing can be frustrating. Novelli Wellness Center helps our
patients understand the wave of healing, recognize the research behind our relieving treatment plan, and celebrate
the pain relief they experience.
DESCRIBING AND RATING PAIN
Since back and neck pain experiences are filled
with fluctuations of symptoms as they heal,
researchers tried to come up with a method
to classify neck pain patients and their pain patterns by studying
1208 neck pain patients. They produced 16 subgroups! Wow.
The biggest 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 12 months. The
patient responses were quite similar in explaining
the pain intensity but not so much for the symptoms and their
characteristics. (2) Novelli Wellness Center finds that everybody
experiences pain in somewhat different ways
and that they find certain types of pain more annoying than others
do. All of our Orchard Park, NY chiropractic patients are distinctive!
THE HEALING “WAVE”
For 12 months, another study tracked
1124 neck pain patients seeing a chiropractor. Neck pain patients
having “persistent pain” – 75% to 63% over 12 months - and very minor pain remained relatively stable. Those
who had “episodic pain” – 21% to 24% over the year – shifted
more in their pain patterns. (3) This is why we forewarn
our back and neck pain patients that recovery is more like a wave
than a straight line. While healing, pain comes and goes.
Going away more than it comes is a solid sign of
healing and pain relief. Novelli Wellness Center repeatedly tells our Orchard Park, NY
neck pain and back pain patients to not be discouraged along the way. We’ll 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 emphasizes
the on-going need for them to have team members like their
chiropractors along with general practitioners to handle
it, understand it, and care for it. A researcher described
how a patient who had spinal surgery 30 years ago now experienced
neck pain and cervical arm pain due to adjacent segment disease – a condition
often seen in spinal discs above and below a 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 slow and steady 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 Novelli Wellness Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. John Murray on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares patient
cases that were complicated and yet attained
relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management with
time.
Make your Orchard Park, NY chiropractic
appointment soon. Together, we’ll work toward
the calming wave of healing and celebrate the pain relief.
