OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain and not avoid life. That is also the goal of your McHenry chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership involving the McHenry 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 recent survey reported that chiropractors like yours at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic relish their profession most as they are capable to decrease pain and increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients through an inclusive treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were noted as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your McHenry chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They found 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 mature adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 elder adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they extracted a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In McHenry, back pain sufferers have a partner at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic 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 truly at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person experiencing pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of the time anyway and wants suggestions regarding how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take encouragement from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) McHenry back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic must work on how each views back pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care routine to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Make your next McHenry chiropractic appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, OrthoIllinois Chiropractic attempts to give our McHenry spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.
