Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain and not avoid life. That’s also the goal of your Tonawanda chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving the Tonawanda back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the best! A recent survey reported that chiropractors like yours at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation relish their profession most as they are able to decrease pain as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power with their patients through a comprehensive treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were noted as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Tonawanda chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which resulted in 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Tonawanda, back pain sufferers have a partner at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation who can help them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is realizing that the one who is truly at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of the time anyway and desires suggestions regarding how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take encouragement from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Tonawanda back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation must communicate how each sees back pain management to most advantageously reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively relieves back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Schedule your next Tonawanda chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation attempts to give our Tonawanda spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.
