Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s
also the goal of your Minster chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the Minster
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 amazing! A new survey found that chiropractors like
yours at Minster Chiropractic Center enjoy their profession
most as they are able to decrease pain
as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients through an inclusive
treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were
reported as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation
for quality care and wanted clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality
of life.” (1) Your Minster chiropractor agrees! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain
issues is a big part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned
how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of
low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician
decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7
conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers state
certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific
set 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 altered
by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked
with more spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In Minster, back
pain sufferers have a partner at Minster Chiropractic Center who can help
them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is recognizing
that the one who is really at the center of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person experiencing
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain happens to be the chronic
issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of
the time anyway and needs suggestions about
how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take guidance from clinicians regarding education about the condition and the collaboration
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Minster back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Minster Chiropractic Center
must work on how each views back
pain management to best reduce the
pain!
CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Keith Bartley on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management gently and successfully
alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists
the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop
another episode of back pain.
Schedule your next Minster
chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center today. In
conjunction with providing relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Minster Chiropractic Center attempts to give
our Minster spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.