American Headache Institute
Head, Neck, & Facial Pain
Treatment Centers
Treatment - Education
3. EDUCATION
In Addition to the patient’s Pain Relieving Exercise Program (PREP) and new pain relieving posture corrections, each patient will receive extensive counseling and information regarding cervical biomechanics, faulty body mechanics, faulty sleeping positions, and how to perform typical activities of daily living while maintaining a protective cervical alignment.
Each patient is
educated on faulty, pain provoking positions specific to their neck. Corrections are individually tailored to promote
pain-relieving positions
when;
S. Haldeman, MD, PhD, DC. Neck Task Force Report
“With the person with neck pain firmly in mind, members of the Neck Pain Task Force chose to focus on the second stated goal: ‘To empower individuals to participate in their own care’. They believe this type of patient-focused approach would yield the greatest positive impact on neck pain among the broadest array of stakeholders”.
(Spine 2008;33:4S,S1-S220).
R. Gallagher, MD, Cervicogenic Headache; A special report. “Instructing the patient to sleep with the neck supported can be helpful.
(Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 2007;7(10) 1279-83)
E. Hurwitz, DC, PhD Treatment of Neck Pain: Noninvasive Interventions: (359 articles reviewed, 170 admissible) “Our best evidence synthesis suggests that therapies involving manual therapy and exercise are more effective than alternative strategies for patients with neck pain; this was also true of therapies which included educational interventions addressing patient self-efficacy”.
(Spine 2008;33:4S,S123-S152)
S. Haldeman, MD, PhD, DC. Neck Task Force Report
“A number of nonsurgical treatments appeared to be more beneficial than usual care, sham, or alternative interventions. These were educational videos, mobilization, manual therapy, and exercises appear to have some benefit”.
(Spine 2008;33:4S,S1-S220).
R. Gallagher, MD, Cervicogenic Headache; A special report. “Educating the patient in minimizing strain, tension or injury to the neck can be helpful as a part of comprehensive care”.
(Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 2007;7(10) 1279-83)
Provoking
Positions
Relieving
Positions
Sitting
Standing
Driving
Sleeping
Corrections are individually tailored
to promote
pain-releiving activites
such as;
...and many others you may
have given up
due to
pain
OUR RESEARCH SUPPORT
(Direct Quotes)
Jogging
Playing
Working
Cleaning
Exercising
Gardening
M. Bernateck, MD, Sustained effects of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitative treatment and sleeping neck support in patients with chronic cervicobrachialgia: a prospective and randomized clinical trial. “Our results indicate that individuals with cervicobrachialgia and its typical complaints (pain radiation and sleep disturbances caused by pain) should receive comprehensive physical therapy and an individually selected sleeping neck support. The group with the sleeping neck support showed a significant decrease in cervical spine pain, and sleep disturbances caused by pain
were also reduced significantly”.
(International J Rehab Research
2008;31:342-46).
Lying
Walking
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