Layden 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 and not avoid life. That’s also the goal of your Plainville chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving the Plainville 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 amazing! A recent survey found that chiropractors like yours at Layden Chiropractic enjoy their profession most because they are able to reduce pain and build strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via a thorough treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were reported as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Plainville chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially 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 influenced the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 elder adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they extracted a specific group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with more spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Plainville, back pain sufferers have a partner at Layden 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 truly at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person experiencing pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take encouragement from clinicians regarding education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Plainville back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Layden Chiropractic must communicate how each sees back pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
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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 successfully 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 Plainville chiropractic appointment with Layden Chiropractic today. In conjunction with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Layden Chiropractic strives to give our Plainville spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.
