Old Mill Chiropractic Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s also the goal of your St Peters chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the St Peters 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 the best! A new survey found that chiropractors like yours at Old Mill Chiropractic relish their profession most because they are able to reduce pain and increase strength, flexibility, and power with their patients through an inclusive treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were reported as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your St Peters chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly 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 impacted 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 reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 elder adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 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 certain group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with more spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In St Peters, back pain sufferers get a partner at Old Mill 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 core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person suffering with 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 desires suggestions regarding how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to contain and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take guidance from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) St Peters back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Old Mill Chiropractic must work on how each views back pain management to most advantageously reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care routine to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next St Peters chiropractic appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Old Mill Chiropractic attempts to give our St Peters spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.
