St Peters Chiropractic and Back Pain Relief Expectations via Surgical or Conservative Care
What do you expect from your chiropractic care of St Peters back pain? That is a key question. Research is reporting that that questions of expectations plays a role in back pain treatment outcome be the treatment surgical or conservative. Old Mill Chiropractic intends to hear your expectations of our St Peters back pain treatment and share the outcomes of our treatment documented in practice and in research.
INFLUENTIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BACK SURGERY OUTCOMES
A new research project studied patient and surgeon expectations of back surgery. Patients expected complete relief and improvement of their back pain after lumbar spine surgery. Surgeons expected improvement that varied from a little to a lot dependant on the patient and his/her specific condition. Can you guess whose expectations were met? The surgeons’ expectations. Two years after the back surgery, the patient-reported outcomes met the surgeon’s expectations. The researchers emphasized that effective communication about expectations may well further better outcomes. (1) That’s why Old Mill Chiropractic devotes time to each St Peters back pain patient early on in care, ensuring that the source of pain and its treatment plan are well-described. If not, ask us!
AN ACCEPTABLE SYMPTOM STATE
If original patient expectations are not met with back surgery, what is an “acceptable symptom state” for that back pain patient? What can he/she live with? For patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (with or without active discopathy), 54% stated having an acceptable symptom state at 1 month of care. Specifically, patient-reported acceptable symptoms included: 47.5 for lumbar pain, 30.5 for radicular pain, 39.3 for disability, 10.0 for anxiety, and 6.7 for depression. (2) Old Mill Chiropractic realizes no pain is the preferred state and is prepared to talk with our St Peters chiropractic patients their options and potential outcomes.
DECIDING ON TREATMENT OPTIONS
Deciding whether to have back surgery is a big decision. Evidence-based medicine views the patient as being the center of care. What is the patient perspective of this care? How is the patient perspective regarded in treatment planning and choosing from available options? A new paper indicated that the patient’s social, psychological, and other non-clinical characteristics must be considered in planning care. (3) One issue in the back-surgery decision that reportedly impacts the decision and the outcome expectation is opioid use. Lower dose and shorter-time-taking opioid use patients expected more complete improvement compared with non-users. They also had higher expectations of positive outcome than higher-dose opioid patients. (4) For many patients, the prospect of work is goal of back pain treatment which is encouraging according to a new report on how back pain patient recovery expectations influence clinical outcomes. A review of 60 studies found that a patient’s recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation. (5) Old Mill Chiropractic employs effective, nonsurgical care of back pain to meet patient expectations once the research on outcomes for other back pain sufferers is presented and absorbed. St Peters chiropractic care keeps the back pain patient at its center.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Anthony Galante on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he described how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment helped manage back pain for a patient who was absolutely positive about not wanting back surgery.
Make your next St Peters chiropractic visit soon. Old Mill Chiropractic invites you to think about and answer the question of your expectations for our treatment so that we can both be happy with the outcome!
