Tonawanda Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I do not want this pain to get any worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients tend to have different goals for their pain. Healthcare policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows otherwise. We all want relief and some hint of control over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and neck pain and acknowledges that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have experienced a few bouts with either condition acknowledge this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain episodes as fast as possible. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is the Tonawanda chiropractic place for back and neck pain patients. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is home of the Tonawanda back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain patients well. A recent study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) found their goals for chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wanted the pain to end forever and tended to have experienced pain for a shorter time and have a deeper belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients wished to prevent their pain from coming back and were more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients sought to stop their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wished temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups of patients were more likely to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a discrepancy from person to person contingent on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers need to understand. (1) Such patient expectations are documented to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study documented that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the 4th appointment. (2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare providers working as a team can raise low back pain patients’ likelihoods of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care relies on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is vital. (4) At Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation the Tonawanda back pain patient is at the center of everything we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he details his history of being a back pain patient desiring pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped him.
Schedule your Tonawanda chiropractic visit with your Tonawanda back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
