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 piqued the attention of Apple Country Chiropractic as it explains the current state of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Williamson chiropractor strives to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Williamson.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They deal with conditions like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What’s 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 beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do now. Chiropractors remain most commonly recognized for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to find out 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 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers take care of 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors fell from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds 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 providing spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education that established federal accreditation for chiropractic, always told 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 strive to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred 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 considered preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is important to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Apple Country Chiropractic welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic used in this Williamson 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 illustrates how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped relieve low back pain for this military veteran.
Set up your next Williamson chiropractic appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic who performs spinal manipulation every day, keeps track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!
