OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Asks Back Pain Patients About Pain Relief Expectations
What do McHenry back pain sufferers want when they seek McHenry back pain care? Back pain relief. How much McHenry back pain relief do they expect? 100%? 50%? That percentage varies with the back pain patient’s experience and preceding care. First time back pain sufferers often expect 100%. A veteran back pain sufferer who has experienced a few back surgeries, several spinal injections, many doctors and therapists may well be delighted with 50% or even 30%. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic invites all these McHenry back pain patients and communicates what the spinal research literature reports as realistic outcomes of McHenry back pain treatment and specifically McHenry chiropractic outcomes of care following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
YOUR EXPECTATION OF McHenry BACK PAIN RELIEF
How much improvement do you expect from your back pain treatment? 30% is held to be “clinically relevant.” (1) Is that adequate for you? Medical literature describes the “minimal clinically important difference” of treatment to be the slightest change in outcome a patient sees as meaningful to him or her. That difference is defined as 30% improvement in self-reported pain or function by a study of 743 patients. (2) In another study of 609 back-related leg pain and sciatica patients, good outcome is explained to be 30% reduction in disability. 55% reported such improvement at 12 months of care. (3) The expectation of 5443 patients who underwent spine surgery for low back degenerative disc disease for pain and disability reduction was met for 64% at 12 months post-surgery. However, satisfaction goes down as disability rises. (4) Realistic expectations of back pain treatment are communicated to McHenry chiropractic patients at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic when the treatment plan is established.
CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES FOR BACK PAIN
In going by the protocols of the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic and fellow chiropractors who utilize it aim for 50% relief of pain in 30 days…and we chiropractors do not feel that is too high a goal! Cox® Technic physicians like yours at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic find higher percentages of improvement for many McHenry back pain patients. With 50% relief, which for many patients appears in just a few visits to a week or two, McHenry chiropractic treatment continues without a surgical consult or advanced imaging (unless progressive neurological deficits are seen or cauda equina exists). 50% relief is often a timely relief for McHenry back pain patients looking for a return to a quality of life that is satisfactory. This might incorporate walking the dog or going to the mailbox. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic tries to help patients achieve realistic and sustainable outcomes of care.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
Schedule your next McHenry chiropractic appointment today. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic anticipates meeting patient expectations of McHenry back pain treatment (be they 20% or 30% or 50% or more!) while also establishing reasonable expectations of back pain relief for each patient’s spine.
