Pflugerville Wellness Center Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain

Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer 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 Pflugerville chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving the Pflugerville 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 amazing! A new survey found that chiropractors like yours at Pflugerville Wellness Center relish their profession most because they are capable to decrease pain as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via an inclusive treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were marked as “being trained to diagnose”the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! -  and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Pflugerville chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.

EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP

Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they pulled a certain set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which resulted in 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In Pflugerville, back pain sufferers have a partner at Pflugerville Wellness Center who can help them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.

EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE

Medicine is recognizing 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 patient self-manages much of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take encouragement from clinicians regarding education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Pflugerville back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Pflugerville Wellness Center need to communicate how each sees back pain management to best reduce the pain!

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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 alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.

Schedule your next Pflugerville chiropractic appointment with Pflugerville Wellness Center soon. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Pflugerville Wellness Center strives to offer our Pflugerville spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation. 

 
Pflugerville Wellness Center encourages back pain sufferers to manage their back pain so it does not mange them. 
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