Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into
whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new 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 the
spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in
Minster.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older.
They meet 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 do today. Chiropractors remain most commonly recognized for their delivery
of spinal manipulation. Medicare sees
it, too. A new study of the clinicians who use
spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal
manipulation was a suggested 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 desired.
Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased
from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians
who deliver spinal manipulation grew from 700 to
1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of
spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall
supply of them is decreasing while the supply of
non-chiropractors offering spinal manipulation is growing.
(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 founded
federal accreditation for chiropractic, always quoted to
the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students
he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC
SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools strive to include
evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at
a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled
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 educated via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of
the survey responders deemed preclinical technique
courses were a good idea. 81% reported that they
thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely,
exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is
important to set up a future chiropractor’s
foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving
the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which
techniques to teach on those that have
the best evidence behind them is important. Minster Chiropractic Center appreciates
all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox®
Technic used 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 explains how the Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Minster
chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center soon. Entrust
your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at
Minster Chiropractic Center who performs spinal manipulation every day, keeps
track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving
treatment based on research evidence. See you
soon!