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Tonawanda Chiropractic and Back Pain Relief Expectations via Surgical or Conservative Care

What do you expect from your chiropractic care of Tonawanda back pain? That is a pivotal question. Research reports that that questions of expectations plays a role in back pain treatment outcome whether that treatment is surgical or conservative. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation aspires to listen to you and your expectations of our Tonawanda back pain treatment and present the outcomes of our treatment documented in practice and in research.

INFLUENTIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BACK SURGERY OUTCOMES

A new research project scrutinized patient and surgeon expectations of back surgery. Patients expected full relief and improvement of their back pain after lumbar spine surgery. Surgeons expected improvement that varied from a little to a lot depending on the patient and his/her specific condition. Whose expectations were met? The surgeons’ expectations. Two years after the back surgery, the patient-reported outcomes met the surgeon’s expectations. The researchers emphasized that effective communication about expectations may well further better outcomes. (1) That’s why Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation spends time with each Tonawanda back pain patient early on in care, ensuring that the source of pain and its treatment plan are well-described. If not, ask us!

AN ACCEPTABLE SYMPTOM STATE

If original patient expectations are not  met with back surgery, what is an “acceptable symptom state” for that back pain patient? What can he/she live with? For patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (with or without active discopathy), 54% reported having an acceptable symptom state at 1 month of care. Specifically, patient-reported acceptable symptoms included: 47.5 for lumbar pain, 30.5 for radicular pain, 39.3 for disability, 10.0 for anxiety, and 6.7 for depression. (2) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation realizes no pain is the preferred state and is ready to discuss with our Tonawanda chiropractic patients their options and potential outcomes.

DECIDING ON TREATMENT OPTIONS

The question of back surgery is a big issue. Evidence-based medicine sees that the patient at the center of care. What is the patient perspective of this care? How is the patient perspective considered in treatment planning and choosing from available options? A recent paper pointed out that the patient’s social, psychological, and other non-clinical characteristics must be taken into account in planning care. (3) One factor in the back-surgery decision that reportedly impacts the decision and the outcome expectation is opioid use. Lower dose and shorter-time-taking opioid use patients expected more complete improvement compared with non-users. They also had higher expectations of positive outcome than higher-dose opioid patients. (4) For a lot of patients, the prospect of work is a light at the end of the tunnel which is positive according to this new report on how back pain patient recovery expectations sway clinical outcomes. A review of 60 studies reported that a patient’s recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation. (5) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation employs effective, nonsurgical care of back pain to meet patient expectations once the research on outcomes for other back pain sufferers is presented and understood. Tonawanda chiropractic care keeps the back pain patient at its center.

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Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Anthony Galante on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment helped manage back pain for a patient who was absolutely positive about not wanting back surgery.

Set your next Tonawanda chiropractic visit today. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation wants to know your answer to the question of your expectations for our treatment so that we can both be happy with the outcome!

 
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation strives to meet realistic patient expectations regarding conservative back pain relief. 
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