Chiropractic Therapy for Neck Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms Behind its Efficacy.
Neck Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that's associated with potential damage to the spine and muscles and ligaments.
When the pain has lasted more than 3 months, the pain is deemed chronic and harder to treat.
A reason why is when the body has got to the point where its sending off pain signals, it usually means there has been dysfunction in the muscles and/or spine prior to the pain appearing.
223 million people are affected worldwide with chronic neck
Neck pain can be triggered by
- Degenerative changes in the cervical spine
- Congenital disease of the cervical spine
- Poor sleep positions
- Excessive neck motion
- Brachial plexus neurtitis
- Inflammation in the neck
Manual therapy is considered an alternative treatment option for patients with chronic neck pain and is associated with fewer adverse effects and lower treatment costs than exercise.
So how does Chiropractic help with neck pain?
Manipulative therapy reduces the internal stress from the spine, helps relax the muscles around the spine. It has been shown that when you get treatment , it helps stimulate specific fibers that block pain signal transmission.
The research concluded that receiving Chiropractic therapy reduced chronic neck pain intensity and neck disability.
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Reference
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of manipulative therapy for patients with chronic neck pain
Author links open overlay panelZhen Liu a 1, Jiao Shi a 1, Yubo Huang a, Xingchen Zhou a, Huazhi Huang a, Hongjiao Wu a, Lijiang Lv a b, Zhizhen Lv a b