“I don’t want this pain to get
worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients have a tendency
to have varying goals for their pain. The goal of healthcare policy is mostly
curative. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Chiropractic Care knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some semblance of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and
disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
Chiropractic Care’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and
neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but
there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have gone
through a few episodes with either condition realize
this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their
experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control
to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain
bouts as quickly as possible. Chiropractic Care is the
West Palm Beach chiropractic place for back and neck pain
patients. Chiropractic Care is home of the West Palm Beach back pain
specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and
neck pain patients well. A newly released study of
1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and
chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for
chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wanted the pain to end permanently
and tended to have experienced
pain for a shorter time and have a stronger
belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain
and 16% of neck pain patients sought to
prevent their pain from returning and tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients wanted to stop their pain from
getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients sought
temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients tended to have had pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person
depending on their experience that chiropractors and other
healthcare providers really should understand. (1)
Such patient expectations are reported to predict
short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study documented
that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more apt
to report an improvement at the fourth visit.
(2) Surely, having healthcare providers of various professions working together
can raise low back pain patients’ chances of
relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for
healthcare providers. Patient-centered care relies on
patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And when it
comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is key. (4) At Chiropractic Care the
West Palm Beach back pain patient is at the center of everything
we do.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares
his history of being a back pain patient desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
helped him.
Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic visit with
your West Palm Beach back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.
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