Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain patient 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 Manchester chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving the Manchester 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 Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries enjoy their profession most as they are capable to decrease pain and build strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via a thorough treatment plan. Two of the top 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 Manchester chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a highlight of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon added to the number of 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 increased 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 pulled a certain group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability influences how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Manchester, back pain sufferers get a partner at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries who can help them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is realizing that the one who is truly at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain sufferer self-manages most of the time anyway and desires suggestions about how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take support from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Manchester back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries must communicate how each sees back pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and successfully eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Make your next Manchester chiropractic appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries now. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries strives to offer our Manchester spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.
