Williamson 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 attracted the attention of Apple Country Chiropractic as it details the current state of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Williamson chiropractor puts forth effort to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Williamson.

PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION

Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They encounter conditions like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What’s the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically delivers the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors are still most commonly known for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it, too. A recent study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They uncovered that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers take care of 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are desired. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors offering 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 which founded federal accreditation for chiropractic, always told the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”

SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS

Chiropractic schools aim to incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at one chiropractic school found 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 taught via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a beneficial idea. 81% felt elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is important to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a successful clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is key. Apple Country Chiropractic appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Williamson chiropractic clinic.

CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic

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. 

Schedule your next Williamson chiropractic appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic who delivers spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!

Apple Country Chiropractic 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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