“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are reporting on
support for chiropractic care in the short and long
term also known as maintenance care. Benefits include
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, continued function, and boosted
confidence in performing activities of daily living.
Chiropractic Care leaves it up to our
West Palm Beach chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies best.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION
RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of
chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients evaluated
how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they experienced. These
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, and function recovered
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was blended into the analysis,
those who stated they had the worst pain had more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits
more than one time a week was the impact beneficial and impacted the outcome
toward more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Chiropractic Care is so glad to see these
types of studies published to present to our
West Palm Beach back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. West Palm Beach back pain has biological, social,
and psychological influences]30] that should be addressed, too. A study of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in
outcome which seems logical since inserting
ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who followed maintenance care
recommendations noted fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who adhered to
recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost,
low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought prevented them from following recommended maintenance
care. (4) A patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating cervical
spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and associated
retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal
neighbors) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and brought about a gradual decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who got
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought
to positively impact pain and control symptoms while
exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to
self-manage their condition. (6) Chiropractic Care carefully designs
a treatment plan for each individual patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the benefit of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Schedule your next West Palm Beach chiropractic
appointment with Chiropractic Care. Our back pain and neck pain patients don’t have to see us, but many choose to because they feel
good and want to stay that way.