Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into
whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report piqued
the attention of Pflugerville Wellness Center as it explains the
current status of spinal manipulation delivery. Your
Pflugerville chiropractor puts forth effort to be your
spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in
Pflugerville.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older.
They encounter spine issues like back
pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What is
the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation.
Which profession historically delivers the majority of
spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and
physical therapists do now. Chiropractors are
still most commonly known for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes
it, too. A recent study of the clinicians who use
spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal
manipulation was a suggested first-line treatment for low
back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal
manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere
from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to
260 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care
for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought.
Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined
from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians
who deliver spinal manipulation increased from 700 to
1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of
spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general
supply of them is falling while the supply of
non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is rising.
(1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph
Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and organizer
of the Council for Chiropractic Education that established
federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded
the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students
he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC
SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools strive to include
evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at
a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled
in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed
that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator
(52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to
be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of
the survey responders considered preclinical technique
courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they
thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely,
exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is
vital to set up a future chiropractor’s
foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of easing
the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which
techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have
the best evidence behind them is key. Pflugerville Wellness Center welcomes
all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox®
Technic used in this Pflugerville chiropractic clinic.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson as she illustrates how the Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Pflugerville
chiropractic appointment with Pflugerville Wellness Center today. Entrust
your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at
Pflugerville Wellness Center who delivers spinal manipulation every day, keeps
track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating
treatment based on research evidence. See you
soon!