Study Proves Chiropractic Good For Removing Chronic Pains in the Neck
A new concluded study concluded at the Scandinavian College of Chiropractic in Stockholm, Sweden, gives increasing credibility to what more and more people are coming to know as fact – that patients suffering from chronic neck pain benefit from Chiropractic treatment.
Each person selected for the study had reported continuous neck pain for a period of at least three months. A total of 41 subjects were selected with symptoms considered to be chronic. Two groups were formed – one to receive Chiropractic treatment and the other receiving no Chiropractic care.
Assessments were done to categorize symptoms, measure Cervical (neck) Range of Motion (CROM) and Head Repositioning Accuracy (HRA). The HRA test measures the ability of the individual’s various nervous, skeletal and muscular systems to reposition the head in a neutral posture following active movement.
The treatment each subject received involved adjustments and rehabilitation exercises.
It should be noted that when the study began there were no significant differences between the treated patients and the control subjects in terms of age, sex, subjective pain intensity, range of motion, or head repositioning.
Both groups were tested and interviewed again following a 5-week period.
Results showed that the Chiropractic treatment patients exhibited significant reductions in pain and improvement in all HRA aspects that were measured. The control group did not show any reduction in pain and only one subject had improvement in one aspect of HRA. No real difference was detected in CROM.
The findings of the subject, simply stated, prove that Chiropractic helps people with long-standing neck pain.