Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That is
also the goal of your Severna Park chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Severna Park
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 the
best! A new survey found that chiropractors like
yours at Back And Neck Care Center relish their profession
most because they are able to decrease pain
and build strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients via a thorough
treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were
marked 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 Severna Park chiropractor agrees! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain
issues is a highlight of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered
how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician
reduced 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 mature adults. The researchers acknowledge
certain limitations in their study as they extracted a specific
group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported
at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which resulted
in 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the
Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts
how much is spent 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 Severna Park, back
pain sufferers get a partner at Back And Neck Care Center who can guide 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 core of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person suffering with
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic
issue, the low back pain sufferer self-manages much of
the time anyway and wants suggestions regarding
how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to contain
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take guidance from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the partnership
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Severna Park back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Back And Neck Care Center
need to communicate how each views back
pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
CONTACT Back And Neck Care 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 routine to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next Severna Park
chiropractic appointment with Back And Neck Care Center soon. In
conjunction with providing relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Back And Neck Care Center attempts to offer
our Severna Park spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.