Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s
also the goal of your West Palm Beach chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the West Palm Beach
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 found that chiropractors like
yours at Chiropractic Care enjoy their profession
most because they are capable to reduce pain
and build strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients through a comprehensive
treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were
marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation
for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality
of life.” (1) Your West Palm Beach chiropractor agrees! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly 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 influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon
added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician
reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 elder
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7
conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 elder adults. The researchers admit
certain limitations in their study as they pulled a certain
group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had
at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which resulted
in 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 transformed
by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated
with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In West Palm Beach, back
pain sufferers get a partner at Chiropractic Care who can help
them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is realizing
that the one who is really at the center of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person suffering with
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic
issue, the low back pain sufferer self-manages most of
the time anyway and desires suggestions about
how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to contain
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take support from clinicians along the
lines of education about the condition and the partnership
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) West Palm Beach back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Chiropractic Care
need to communicate how each sees back
pain management to most advantageously reduce the
pain!
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
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 successfully
relieves 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.
Schedule your next West Palm Beach
chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Care soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Chiropractic Care strives to offer
our West Palm Beach spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.