Williamson Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I don’t want this pain to get worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients tend to have different goals for their pain. The goal of healthcare policy is mostly curative. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Apple Country Chiropractic knows otherwise. We all want relief and some semblance of control over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Apple Country Chiropractic’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have experienced a few bouts with either condition realize this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their experience: there isn’t always a cure, but there is often control to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain bouts as quickly as possible. Apple Country Chiropractic is the Williamson chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Apple Country Chiropractic is home of the Williamson back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain patients well. A recent study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wanted the pain to cease permanently and tended to have suffered with pain for a briefer period of time and hold a deeper belief in medical cure; they wanted a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients wanted to prevent their pain from coming back and were more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients wished to stop their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wanted temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients were more likely to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person depending on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers really should recognize. (1) Such patient expectations are written to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the fourth appointment. (2) Surely, having healthcare providers of various professions working as a team can boost low back pain patients’ odds of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for healthcare providers. Patient-centered care depends on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective needs to always be considered. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is vital. (4) At Apple Country Chiropractic the Williamson back pain patient is at the center of all we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he details his story of being a back pain patient wanting pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped him.
Schedule your Williamson chiropractic visit with your Williamson back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
