Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic

Guidelines for back pain care recommend non-surgical care treatments like spinal manipulation. So who delivers non-surgical care? A recent study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your Williamson chiropractor at Apple Country Chiropractic relish that responsibility. Your Williamson chiropractor helps Williamson back pain and neck pain patients be alleviated of the pain and enhance their quality of life.

The newest guideline for non-surgical treatment of patients whose back pain and/or leg pain just started advocates patient education (incorporating a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!

24% of US adults seek out chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults received chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients seek chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines written by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical approaches like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain ended with a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these patients with low back pain and leg pain go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? They received opioid prescriptions more often. (4) Your Williamson chiropractor offers a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.

But what inspires a visit to a chiropractor like your Williamson chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds right for Apple Country Chiropractic, too. Our Williamson chiropractic patients see us as the Williamson back and neck pain specialists!)  Further, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more prone to consult a chiropractor in the past year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% thought the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your Williamson chiropractor is ready to share care! Apple Country Chiropractic is ready to cooperate with your primary care physician as necessary.

Schedule your Williamson chiropractic appointment today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all on your side and desire the same thing: non-surgical pain relief as called for by the most recent back pain care guidelines and improved quality of life for you, our shared Williamson back pain patient or neck pain patient.