Benefits of Continued Minster Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, but you might well want to!”
Researchers are reporting on support for chiropractic care in the short and long term also known as maintenance care. Advantages include pain relief and return of function in the short term and continued pain relief, sustained function, and boosted confidence in performing activities of daily living. Minster Chiropractic Center trusts our Minster chiropractic patients to make the best decision for their condition as they know themselves and their bodies well.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients analyzed how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much functional improvement they experienced. The involved patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, and function improved gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of chiropractic visits was considered in the analysis, those who experienced the worst pain had more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits more than one time a week was the impact beneficial and impacted the outcome toward more improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage. Minster Chiropractic Center is so glad to read about these published studies to share with our Minster back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Minster back pain has all sorts of influences: social, biological, psychological, too. A collection of back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus multidisciplinary care uncovered a relatively small difference in outcome which seems logical since inserting ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the maintenance care recommendations noted fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited days. (3) Back pain patients who followed recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost, low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought prevented them from following recommended maintenance care. (4) A patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once a month maintenance care including cervical spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal neighbors) kept the patient asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as possible, and produced a steady reduction in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was considered to positively impact pain and control symptoms while exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to self-handle their condition. (6) Minster Chiropractic Center carefully designs a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal outcomes for each.
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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Robert Borzone on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the benefit of continued chiropractic care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with a disc herniation.
Make your next Minster chiropractic appointment with Minster Chiropractic Center. Our back pain and neck pain patients do not have to see us, but many choose to because they feel good and want to stay that way.
