Back
Pain Helped by Accessible Chiropractic Care in Cost and Relief
Back pain and neck pain are not only painful but also costly and manytimes complex. Overall health care
spending in the United State keeps rising: $1.4
trillion in 1996 to $3.1 trillion in 2016. It accounts for 18% of
the US economy as of 2020. Of the top 154 conditions that insurers pay for
the coverage of,
low back pain and
neck pain were the costliest at $134.5 billion.
(What conditions followed? #2 was musculoskeletal disorders, and #3 was diabetes care.) (1) In
one study of Medicare expenditures for
chiropractic spine care, researchers reported
that $400 to $500 million was spent each year. They also stated
that
higher accessibility to chiropractic lowered the
reliance on primary care services for spine pain
conditions. Further, some monetary savings for care
of spine pain conditions was seen in the care of ambulatory
patients that may well add up to bigger savings since
spine pain conditions are so common in older adults. (2)
Ambulatory patients can get themselves to a healthcare practitioner,
and many find their way to chiropractors. Chiropractors are known
for their care of the spine and spine-related, musculoskeletal conditions. A recent
study reported that they, predictably, most
often elected to use
spinal manipulation for clinical treatments
of spinal conditions and soft tissue approaches for
extremity pain conditions.
(3) Chiropractors are well-trained to
diagnose co-morbidities, conditions that spine pain patients deal
with in addition to spine pain that are not spine related. Researchers are presently collecting
data that will reveal just how many such
conditions chiropractors find in their patients.
(4) This existence
of non-spine related conditions is a basis for chiropractors’
intensive diagnostic training and familiarity with co-management
with other medical care as needed. Your chiropractor is prepared
to examine, diagnose, and treat your
spine-related pain condition regardless of its complexity in a cost-effective, gentle,
evidence-based manner often using
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Understand Spinal Muscle Care: Electrical Current
Care of the spinal muscles is important,
too. This applies to young and old alike! For the older
folks, it is really important as loss of skeletal
spinal mass - which affects lumbar lordosis, too -
makes them vulnerable to chronic low back pain. (5) Fatty infiltration of the
paraspinal muscles correlated greatly with
a higher risk of back pain and disability in a recent study. (6)
Electrical stimulation (in addition to exercise and nutrition
which your chiropractor also supports!) is helpful in enhancing
spinal muscle. Interferential current was said to be better
than placebo at lowering pain and disability immediately
after use in chronic low back pain patients. (7) Your individualized Minster chiropractic treatment plan may include such additional
care along with spinal manipulation. Embrace it!
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Jay Young on The Back Doctors Podcast with
Dr. Michael Johnson about use of The
Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to manage
back pain in a patient with degenerative disc disease.
CONTACT Minster Chiropractic Center
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chiropractic visit with Minster Chiropractic Center soon.
We’ll see you soon! And we're happy to share our chiropractic services to help alleviate your pain.
