New Roads Chiropractic Center Cares for Neck Pain and Painful Cervical Spine Facet Joints

Zygapophyseal joints are also named facet joints. Facet is a bit easier to say than zygapophyseal, and New Roads Chiropractic Center knows ‘facet’ is much easier to type than 'zygaopophyseal’! These joints are documented to be the source of neck-related pain for many adults of all ages. New Roads Chiropractic Center provides gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation to ease neck pain like that produced by facet joint innervation.

FOUNDATIONAL STUDY

Mapping of normal volunteers’ responses to stimulation of cervical facet joints in the 1990s was groundbreaking. Five volunteers came forward to have their cervical spine facet joints irritated to see where neck pain and arm pain were felt. Wow! These volunteers’ pain responses allowed for the making of easy-to-understand pain charts. (1) A follow up study of 10 patients with cervical spine pain compared their pain to that noted in the normal volunteers’ pain drawings to substantiate the original charts from normal volunteers. (2) New Roads Chiropractic Center sees verification of these normal volunteers’ pain reports in our New Roads neck pain patients! Decompression of spinal nerves with chiropractic helps. 

NEW INPUT ON CERVICAL FACET JOINTS

Novel information from a current-day dissection project added new facts to the role cervical facet joints (aka zygapophyseal joints) have in neck pain and arm pain. At some levels, more than one medial branch was found. Direct facet joint branches were seen that came from the dorsal root of the spinal nerve. These were independent from the medial branches in their direct path to the facet joint. Current day researchers wonder whether there is a more varied pattern of innervation than has already been documented. (3) New Roads Chiropractic Center appreciates the nuances of spine pain and the research that discovered them.

EXAM AND TREATMENT

Clinical observation, examination, and imaging findings lead the diagnosis of neck pain given the complexity of cervical facet joints. (4) The cervical spine facet joint is innervated by mechanoreceptive (mechanical pressure-inducing) and nociceptive (nervous system related pain-inducing) nerve fibers involving the dorsal root ganglia and end processes of the spinal cord. The central nervous system is complex and responsive to these painful stimuli, both pressure and nerve related. (5) That is why your New Roads chiropractor takes time in examining, diagnosing and treating New Roads neck pain. There are many factors to take into account! Our Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management is soothing, non-thrust spinal manipulation of the cervical spine for New Roads neck pain relief.

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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Sean Delahunt on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the effectiveness and gentleness of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his gentleman patient with neck pain and tingling in his arm and hand.     

Make your next New Roads chiropractic appointment with New Roads Chiropractic Center. Pick your term: zygapophyseal or facet! We’re here to talk, diagnose, and treat them for neck and arm pain relief.