“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want
to!”
Researchers are documenting the
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, continued function, and greater
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Cross Chiropractic Center leaves it up to our
Sandy Springs chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies best.
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 felt. 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 mixed in the analysis,
those who stated they had the worst pain had more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits
more than once a week was the impact beneficial and made a difference in regards to more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Cross Chiropractic Center is so glad to read about these published studies to share with our
Sandy Springs back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Sandy Springs 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 found a relatively small difference in
outcome which seems logical since adding
ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who followed maintenance care
recommendations noted fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who adhered to
recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost,
low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought stood in
the way of their following recommended maintenance
care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly 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) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, kept the spine functioning as best as
possible, and brought about 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 improve 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-manage their condition. (6) Cross Chiropractic Center carefully designs
a treatment plan for each unique patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Cross Chiropractic Center
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
explains the benefit of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Schedule your next Sandy Springs chiropractic
appointment with Cross 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 keep feeling good.