Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively
Have you heard it said that numbers don’t lie? With all the numbers out there about back and neck pain costs and outcomes, we can put that to the test. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation shares a few of the latest ones that are quite interesting and supportive of our Tonawanda chiropractic approach using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS
Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-established. Are they followed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 had persistent low back pain. These patients were not surgical candidates and had gone through conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% underwent physical therapy, 50% underwent chiropractic, 26% got steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. In contradiction to guidelines for low back pain treatment, most patients were prescribed opioids while several non-drug treatments were used by only a few. (1) Another report detailed that 775,893 general practitioner visits led to 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-drug treatment choice for frequently referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were quite substantial. (1) Tonawanda back pain treatment costs don’t vary that much.
COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE
According to a review of Humana insurance claims, the pre-operative costs of conservative treatment alternatives for cervical spine radiculopathy were only 37.7% of the total non-operative costs for this condition. Injection costs were the greatest, coming in at $988 on average per patient. Other expenses were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), then chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy went to diagnostic modalities. (3) Tonawanda neck and back pain patients have an experienced chiropractic option in their chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation.
INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE
Recent data showed a 106% increase in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that led to a referral to another physician inpart because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that discussed this finding concluded with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would be referred to as their first subspeciality, a surgeon. Further, patients who are less likely to need surgery would see a non-operative spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Tonawanda chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is well-prepared to be the Tonawanda non-surgical spine specialist this article suggests for our Tonawanda low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT
Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% reported ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more reduction in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seek at least 50% decrease of pain non-surgically in a month. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly better with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them scored greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had greater than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was continued: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Tonawanda chiropractor delivers just such relief and understands when to refer if needed.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration for reducing post-surgical continued back pain.
Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic appointment soon. Don’t let numbers scare you. Let them enlighten your path to pain relief. See you soon!
