Old Mill Chiropractic Asks Back Pain Patients About Pain Relief Expectations
What do St Peters back pain sufferers want when they seek St Peters back pain care? Back pain relief. How much St Peters back pain relief do they expect? 100%? 50%? That percentage varies with the back pain patient’s experience and preceding care. First time back pain sufferers many times expect 100%. A veteran back pain sufferer who has undergone a couple back surgeries, several spinal injections, many doctors and therapists may well be delighted with 50% or even 30%. Old Mill Chiropractic welcomes all these St Peters back pain patients and communicates what the spinal research literature documents as realistic outcomes of St Peters back pain treatment and specifically St Peters chiropractic outcomes of care using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
YOUR EXPECTATION OF St Peters BACK PAIN RELIEF
How much improvement do you expect from your back pain treatment? 30% is reported to be “clinically relevant.” (1) Is that enough for you? Medical literature characterizes the “minimal clinically important difference” of treatment to be the least change in outcome a patient sees as meaningful to him or her. That difference is described as 30% improvement in self-reported pain or function as a result of a study of 743 patients. (2) In another study of 609 back-related leg pain and sciatica patients, good outcome is defined as 30% reduction in disability. 55% stated such improvement at 12 months of care. (3) The expectation of 5443 patients who had spine surgery for low back degenerative disc disease for pain and disability reduction was met for 64% at 12 months post-surgery. However, satisfaction goes down as disability rises. (4) Realistic expectations of back pain treatment are communicated to St Peters chiropractic patients at Old Mill Chiropractic when the treatment plan is arranged.
CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES FOR BACK PAIN
In going by the protocols of the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic, Old Mill Chiropractic and fellow chiropractors who offer it seek 50% relief of pain in 30 days…and we chiropractors don’t feel that is too lofty a goal! Cox® Technic physicians like yours at Old Mill Chiropractic witness higher percentages of improvement for many St Peters back pain patients. With 50% relief, which for many patients appears in just a few visits to a couple weeks, St Peters chiropractic treatment continues without a surgical consult or advanced imaging (except if progressive neurological deficits are seen or cauda equina exists). 50% relief is frequently a welcome relief for St Peters back pain patients looking for a return to a quality of life that is satisfactory. This might include walking the dog or walking to the mailbox. Old Mill Chiropractic strives to help patients achieve realistic and maintainable outcomes of care.
CONTACT Old Mill Chiropractic
Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic appointment today. Old Mill Chiropractic works to meet patient expectations of St Peters back pain treatment (be they 20% or 30% or 50% or more!) as well as forming realistic expectations of back pain relief for each patient’s spine.
