“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want
to!”
Researchers are reporting on
support for chiropractic care in the shorter and longer
term also known as maintenance care. Benefits consist of
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, sustained function, and enhanced
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation trusts our Carrolltown chiropractic patients to make
the best decision for their condition as they 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 analyzed
how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they experienced. These
patients were found to suffer with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function recovered
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis,
those who had the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients made a difference in terms of greater
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is so glad to see these
types of studies published to share with our
Carrolltown back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Carrolltown back pain has biological, social,
and psychological influences]30] that should be addressed as well. A study of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care uncovered a relatively small difference in
outcome which makes sense that adding
ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who followed maintenance care
recommendations reported 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) One 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) kept the patient
asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced 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 manage 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) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation carefully creates
a treatment plan for each unique patient for optimal
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the effectiveness of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Make your next Carrolltown chiropractic
appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Our back pain and neck pain patients do
not have to see us, but many choose to because they feel
good and want to stay that way.