OrthoIllinois Chiropractic Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a place in managing and relieving pain that shouldn’t be overlooked. Primary care physicians aren’t very confident in treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the leading prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who treats 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic treats many pain patients and eases a good deal of McHenry back pain often without opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

These statistics are based on a huge study of 478,981 freshly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who begin utilizing opiates for pain relief. (2)

• 40.4% of pain patients accepted opioid prescriptions initially inside the first year of pain while only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
• Family practice doctors are the most usual first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
• Patients who look for care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most likely to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
• Patients diagnosed initially by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have a higher risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

OrthoIllinois Chiropractic welcomes pain patients to seek McHenry chiropractic care sooner than later!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) treat chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least likely physicians to feel confident treating musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic confidently offer non-drug management and/or co-management with other healthcare personnel for the pain relief and pain control for McHenry back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

OrthoIllinois Chiropractic ponders why chiropractors are not more readily thought of in the process for McHenry pain relief, especially McHenry back pain relief. Chiropractic services incorporate spinal manipulation (one of the top recommended types of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What prevents some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also notes that patients believe their medical doctor knows about nutrition. (4) And that’s ok if healthcare professionals collaborated sharing their expertise, recognizing that each offers value in the care of the pain patient and has the best interest of the patient fundamentally. Chiropractors have expertise in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Knowing that a healthcare provider’s profession effects his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for McHenry back pain patient care are established in an attempt to use the expertise maximally. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient receives a consistent therapy message with up-to-date treatment guidelines. Activity messages do differ by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more in line with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic collaborates with other local McHenry healthcare providers for patient care, valuing their expertise and contribution to McHenry back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day better.

CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic

Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your McHenry chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow McHenry healthcare providers and to offer you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.