Apple Country Chiropractic Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain and not avoid life. That’s also the goal of your Williamson chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Williamson back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is amazing! A recent survey reported that chiropractors like yours at Apple Country Chiropractic enjoy their profession most because they are capable to reduce pain and build strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients through a thorough treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were noted as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Williamson chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers acknowledge certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Williamson, back pain sufferers have a partner at Apple Country Chiropractic who can help them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is recognizing that the one who is really at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person experiencing pain and chronic disorder. When back pain happens to be the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take support from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Williamson back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic need to work on how each views back pain management to best reduce the pain!
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and successfully eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Make your next Williamson chiropractic appointment with Apple Country Chiropractic soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Apple Country Chiropractic attempts to offer our Williamson spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation.
