Minster Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report attracted the attention of Minster Chiropractic Center as it explains the current status of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Minster chiropractor puts forth effort to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Minster.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They deal with spine issues like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What’s the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically gives the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are now. Chiropractors remain most commonly recognized for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to 260 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers take care of 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians who provide spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors delivering spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education that set up federal accreditation for chiropractic, always quoted to the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools aim to incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were trained in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders deemed preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is important to establish a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have the best evidence behind them is key. Minster Chiropractic Center appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Minster chiropractic clinic.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped relieve low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Minster chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Minster Chiropractic Center who delivers spinal manipulation every day, keeps track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
