Minster Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I do not want this pain to get any worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients have a tendency to have varying goals for their pain. Healthcare policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Minster Chiropractic Center knows otherwise. We all want relief and some semblance of control over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Minster Chiropractic Center’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have experienced a few episodes with either condition acknowledge this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain bouts as quickly as possible. Minster Chiropractic Center is the Minster chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Minster Chiropractic Center is home of the Minster back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain sufferers well. A newly released study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wanted the pain to cease permanently and were more likely to have experienced pain for a briefer period of time and hold a deeper belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients sought to prevent their pain from coming back and tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients wanted to prevent their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wanted temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups of patients tended to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a discrepancy from person to person depending on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers really should recognize. (1) Such patient expectations are written to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the 4th appointment. (2) Certainly, having healthcare providers of various professions working together can raise low back pain patients’ chances of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for healthcare providers. Patient-centered care depends on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And when it comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is key. (4) At Minster Chiropractic Center the Minster back pain patient is at the center of all we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he details his history of being a back pain patient desiring pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eased his pain.
Schedule your Minster chiropractic visit with your Minster back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
