Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Treats the Patient Not the MRI
Why do patients opt for back surgery? Pain. What conditions do they suffer with most that leads them to back surgery? Spinal stenosis. Spondylolisthesis. What symptoms do they want to get rid of? Butt pain. Leg pain. Back pain. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries is available as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain patients, Manchester chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients report all types of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal pain. (The saying that something is a “pain in the butt” is a preceise portrayal of some back pain patients’ pain! That pain is a more radicular issue than degenerative change of facet joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common reason for back surgery for US adults. A study of stenosis patients who have endured at least 3 years of suffering revealed that manual therapy and individualized exercise excelled in helping the most patients receive more than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seeks at least 50% relief in 30 days with lots of patients realizing 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% quicker than that! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries recognizes that there are Manchester back pain sufferers who would rejoice at non-surgical relief like that!
BACK SURGERY: NECESSITY, COST AND IMAGING
Just how many back-pain patients with spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis require surgery? 0.8%. This comes from a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of this paper suggested doing decompression surgery without or with fusion sooner to lower the expense of non-operative treatment. (3) Oh my! The cost of a fusion in 2006 was $40,000 (4) and $80,000 to $100,000 in 2013, making back pain the leading cause of disability in the world in front of 290 other conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is said to be just 2.9% of the cost of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added expense to the treatment of back pain: 1 in 4 (25%) of patients who go to a primary care doctors and 1 in 3 (33%) who go to the emergency room received imaging. (7) And how does imaging enhance patient care and clinical outcome? Good question. There is no correlation between MRI findings for stenosis and the severity of pain, quality of life, depression or anxiety. (8, 9) What does boost patient care and clinical outcome? Collaboration between physicians – surgical and non-surgical spine experts – helps chronic back pain patients recover in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries invites such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! Your feeling better is our goal!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Olding shares lumbar spinal stenosis care with Cox® Technic that allowed a woman to continue doing what she loved!
Schedule a non-surgical Manchester chiropractic care appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries today. Physical, mental and emotional pain relief may be relieved and back surgery dodged with gentle, safe chiropractic care at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries where patient care revolves around the patient not the MRI!
