May 17

Relief For Chronic Back Pain

Low back pain affects 10-30% of the US population with a lifetime prevalence as high as 65-80%. Chronic back pain, pain lasting beyond 3 months without relief, demands good care via effective, well-documented treatment. Chronic back pain patients want and deserve such care that may require multidisciplinary, multimodal approaches like physical, psychological, and interventional care. (1) Chiropractic care fits the call for multidisciplinary help with its focus on physical spinal manipulation, nutrition, exercise, and ancillary care. A recently published case report shared how gentle, low-velocity, Cox® Technic flexion distraction treatment relieved chronic low back pain for a 67-year-old veteran who’d been suffering for decades with chronic low back pain that occasionally affected his right leg. The treatment included 4 visits over 4 weeks that resulted in improvement, less use of pain meds, and better mobility. (2) Your chiropractor is well aware of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and follows its protocols every day! It’s time to bring your chronic back pain to us and suggest our care to your suffering friends and family. We’re here for all of you.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. James Cox on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the benefit of both The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management as well as B vitamins in the care and relief of back pain for a patient with 3 disc herniations.

TIP OF THE MONTH: Take B Vitamins to Help Reduce Pain

Recent evidence of the use of the B vitamin complex (thiamine, pyridoxine, methyl/cyanocobalamin) offers an analgesic effect for low back pain as well as other musculoskeletal disorders involving nociceptive and neuropathic components. How? The anti-inflammatory, antinociceptive, neuroprotective, and neuro-modulatory effects on the pain system combine for a beneficial result. (3) Vitamin B12 (cobalamine) itself has proven itself to be a reliever of all sorts of pain: back and spine, musculoskeletal, abdominal, and diabetic neuropathic pain and even Alzheimer’s. B12 is also reported to help regenerate sensory nerves and relieve eye disease pain (like dry eye). (4) Do you take B vitamins? Do you know if you’re taking enough? Let’s talk about how B vitamins may help boost your healing and relief of back pain. 

Thank you for trusting your spinal health to us!

See you at your next appointment!

References for HEALTHY NEWS – May 2023

  1. Urits I, Burshtein A, Sharma M, Testa L, Gold PA, Orhurhu V, Viswanath O, Jones MR, Sidransky MA, Spektor B, Kaye AD. Low Back Pain, a Comprehensive Review: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2019 Mar 11;23(3):23. doi: 10.1007/s11916-019-0757-1. PMID: 30854609.
  2. Rogers C, Elchert C, Hackney M: Chiropractic Management of a 67-Year-Old Veteran With Chronic Low Back Pain Utilizing Low-Velocity Flexion-Distraction: A Case Report. J Chiro Med 2023; in press April 27, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcm.2023.03.002
  3. Nava-Mesa MO, Aispuru Lanche GR. Papel de las vitaminas B, tiamina, piridoxina y cianocobalamina en el dolor de espalda y otras condiciones musculoesqueléticas: revisión narrativa [Role of B vitamins, thiamine, pyridoxine, and cyanocobalamin in back pain and other musculoskeletal conditions: a narrative review]. Semergen. 2021 Nov-Dec;47(8):551-562. Spanish. doi: 10.1016/j.semerg.2021.01.010. Epub 2021 Apr 14. PMID: 33865694.
  4. Furgała R, Stompor M. Effects of vitamin B12 supplementation on pain relief in certain diseases – a literature review. Acta Biochim Pol. 2022 Apr 22;69(2):265-271. doi: 10.18388/abp.2020_5876. PMID: 35451593.