Plainville Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I don’t want this pain to get any worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients tend to have varying goals for their pain. Healthcare policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Layden Chiropractic knows otherwise. We all want relief and some trace of control over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Layden Chiropractic’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have had a few episodes with either condition realize this, too. They align their healthcare goals with their experience: there isn’t always a cure, but there is often control to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain bouts as fast as possible. Layden Chiropractic is the Plainville chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Layden Chiropractic is home of the Plainville back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain patients well. A recent study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wanted the pain to disappear permanently and were more likely to have experienced pain for a briefer period of time and have a deeper belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients sought to stop their pain from coming back and tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients sought to stop their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients sought temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients were more likely to have had pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person contingent on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers need to recognize. (1) Such patient expectations are documented to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the fourth appointment. (2) Surely, having healthcare providers of various professions working together can boost low back pain patients’ likelihoods of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care relies on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective needs to always be considered. And when it comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is key. (4) At Layden Chiropractic the Plainville back pain patient is at the center of all we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares his history of being a back pain patient desiring pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eased his pain.
Schedule your Plainville chiropractic visit with your Plainville back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
