Minster Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation often goes like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Minster attending a meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Really? My brother has the worst back pain and pain down the leg!”
Your Minster chiropractor enjoys this and could converse about back pain and neck pain all day long! Minster chiropractic patients at Minster Chiropractic Center know this for sure. Your Minster chiropractor welcomes the reputation as the Minster back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so stimulating and engaging! Minster Chiropractic Center understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and is not bashful at all about letting everyone know in Minster.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You’ve heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant for Gallup teamed up with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for a study that showed that 78% of American adults would prefer to use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to deal with pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults believed physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe when compared to pain meds. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about Chiropractors,” he emphasized how bad the opioid crisis is in the US and that evidence-based non-drug options like spinal manipulation are reasonable alternatives. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers wrote that chiropractic is seen by society as a profession of health care providers who are experts in spine care as their education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing revolve around spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed that chiropractic care was valuable in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% believed chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Minster Chiropractic Center gets this. Minster Chiropractic Center grasps that Minster back pain and neck pain patients find relief with the Minster chiropractic care and then rely on Minster Chiropractic Center to lead them in other healthy approaches to control their back pain conditions and improve their health and spine to avert future adverse health and/or spinal pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially educated to care for patients with spinal disease, primary spine practitioners perform many responsibilities: diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), present evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise, education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and organize all aspects of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It is a big job with plenty of responsibility! It is truly the role your Minster chiropractor embraces! What do Minster back pain sufferers wants? Consumers desire access to non-drug therapies supplied by spine care experts like chiropractors initially. Such access helps in a few ways. One is improving the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is lessening the cost of care. (6) Four is potentially curbing the opioid epidemic. The American College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically state that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Minster Chiropractic Center is here to do its share to help.
CONTACT YOUR Minster SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a patient who doesn’t want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Minster chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center to investigate the benefit of having the Minster back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in many cases.
