Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic

Back pain care guidelines endorse non-surgical care approaches like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A recent study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your McHenry chiropractor at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic embrace that responsibility. Your McHenry chiropractor assists McHenry back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and improve their quality of life.

The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment of patients whose back pain and/or leg pain just started advocates patient education (including a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!

24% of US adults seek chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults got chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients get chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines written by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical approaches like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain resulted in a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these patients with low back pain and leg pain go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? They received opioid prescriptions more and more. (4) Your McHenry chiropractor offers a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.

But what prompts a visit to a chiropractor like your McHenry chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds right for OrthoIllinois Chiropractic, too. Our McHenry chiropractic patients view the back pain specialists at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic as back and neck pain relief specialists!)  Additionally, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more prone to consult a chiropractor in the past year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% thought having medical and chiropractic care was helpful. (1) Your McHenry chiropractor is fully open to combining care! OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is ready to cooperate with your primary care physician as necessary.

Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all with you and want the same thing: non-surgical pain relief suggested by the most recent back pain care guidelines and improved quality of life for you, our shared McHenry back pain patient or neck pain patient.