Chiropractic
& Arm Pain
90%
of patients with arm pain radiating from the neck can be successfully
treated with conservative spine care.
Conservative
treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome: a 2-year follow-up.
-Archives
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (April 1997)
Shoulder
pain patients who receive manipulation improve significantly
faster and are nearly 50% more likely to remain symptom-free
compared to physiotherapy patients.
70%
of manipulation patients feel cured after 5 weeks of treatment
compared to just 10% of physiotherapy patients.
-British
Medical Journal (May 3, 1997, and May 22, 1999)
"...manipulation
has been shown previously to be a safe and effective treatment"
for carpal tunnel syndrome.
Manipulation
of the wrist can increase the width of the carpal tunnel
by almost as much as that gained from carpal tunnel surgery.
-Benjamin
Sucher, D.O., et al (December 1998)
"...manipulation
therapy [of the cervical spine] is capable of eliciting a
rapid" decrease in tennis elbow pain.
-Pain
(November 1996)
The
arm and leg pain of over 80% of patients treated for a herniated
disc resolved completely with chiropractic care.
Magnetic
resonance imaging and clinical follow-up: study of 27
patients receiving chiropractic care for cervical and
lumbar disc herniations.
-Journal
of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (November/December
1996)
Patients
with shoulder impingement syndrome who undergo exercise and
manual therapy treatment improve twice as much as those treated
with exercise alone.
-Journal
of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (March
2000)
Can
Manual Therapy Help
Impingement Syndrome of
The Shoulder?
Data
taken from:
Comparison of supervised exercise
with and without manual physical therapy for patients
with shoulder impingement syndrome.
Bang MD, Deyle GD. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports
Physical Therapy 2000 Mar:30(3):126-37
Department of Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical
Center, Vallejo, Calif. 94590, USA.
Is
Chiropractic Better for Shoulder
Pain Than Physiotherapy?
Data
taken from:
Comparison of physiotherapy,
mainpulation, and corticosteroid injection for treating
shoulder complaints in general practice: randomized, single
blind study.
Winters JC, Sobel JS, Groenier KH, Arendzen HJ, Meybom-de
Jong B. British Medical Journal 1997, May 3:314(7090):1320-5.
Department of General Practice, University of Groningen,
Netherlands.
