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Tonawanda Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors

Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report drew the attention of Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation as it describes the current status of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Tonawanda chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Tonawanda.

PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION

Medicare patients are older. They deal with spine issues like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are now. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who use spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a suggested first-line treatment for low back pain. They uncovered that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They served anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to 260 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are desired. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation grew from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is falling while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and organizer of the Council for Chiropractic Education that set up federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”

SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS

Chiropractic schools aim to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A new survey of faculty at one chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Tonawanda chiropractic clinic.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran. 

Make your next Tonawanda chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!

Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation uses spinal manipulation daily as a representative of the chiropractic profession which is recognized as being the profession of spinal manipulation practitioners.
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