“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“No, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are documenting the
support for chiropractic care in the short and long
term also known as maintenance care. Advantages consist of
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, continued function, and greater
confidence in performing activities of daily living.
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation trusts our Tonawanda chiropractic patients to make
the best decision for their condition as they know themselves and their
bodies well.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION
RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of
chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients evaluated
how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they felt. The involved
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function improved
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was blended into the analysis,
those with the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients impacted the outcome
toward greater
improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation is so glad to see these
types of studies published to present to our
Tonawanda back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Tonawanda back pain has all
sorts of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A collection of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in
outcome which makes sense that inserting
ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the maintenance care
recommendations reported fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who adhered to
recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost,
low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought prevented them from following recommended maintenance
care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating cervical
spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related
retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal
neighbors) kept the patient
asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and brought about a gradual reduction
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought
to improve pain and manage symptoms while
exercise supported self-efficacy and confidence in being
able to stay active and mobile and in being able to
self-handle their condition. (6) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation carefully designs
a treatment plan for each unique patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the effectiveness of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Make your next Tonawanda chiropractic
appointment with Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation. Our back pain and neck pain patients do
not have to see us, but many do because they feel
good and want to keep feeling good.