Sitka Chiropractic Care Helps Back Pain After Back Surgery Surgery and Integrates Extension Exercise into the Treatment Plan

Most Sitka back pain patients undergo back surgery expecting Sitka back pain relief. That expectation is not always met. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka hears this from Sitka back surgery patients and reads it in the spine literature.  49-58% relief of pain for sciatica (leg pain) because of a disc herniation is common. (1) Post-surgical back pain patients may discover that they experience back pain after Sitka back surgery. What are some choices? Spinal manipulation and exercise is one relieving option. The American College of Physicians and American Pain Society recommend spinal manipulation for low back pain relief. (2) One patient experienced 89% improvement with 12 spinal manipulation sessions plus exercise. (3) A study of 69 post-surgical back pain patients cared for with Cox® Technic - like they are at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka – found that 81% of patients showed at least 50% reduction of pain at the end of 3 months of care. 78.6% of those patients had persistent pain relief at 24 months follow up. (4) Sitka chiropractic relief for post-surgical back pain patients often meets a patient’s expectation of back pain relief. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka invites you or a suffering friend or family member to visit today.

Listen to this PODCAST on The Back Doctors’ Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which Dr. David Atiyeh describes a patient who had experienced back surgery expecting pain relief and post-surgically discovered pain relief with chiropractic Cox® Technic care.

Sitka back pain sufferers frequently find relief by flexing forward just a bit, not flexing backward into extension. (Read the SPINE article May 2018 on our website about why!) Extension is not all bad. A healthy spine can extend. A healthy spine requires solid back muscles to support all its movements. Strengthening those extensor muscles to stop Sitka back pain is important. Research shows that lumbar spine extension weakness and extensor muscle deconditioning are found in Sitka chiropractic patients with chronic low back pain. (5) Why? Back muscles degenerate in back pain sufferers like spinal discs degenerate. (6) Integrate extension exercises into your day when your Sitka chiropractor tells you it’s time to do so. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka can help!

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