Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic

Guidelines for back pain care emphasize non-surgical care approaches like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A recent study just came out and said that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your Pflugerville chiropractor at Pflugerville Wellness Center welcome that responsibility. Your Pflugerville chiropractor assists Pflugerville back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and improve their quality of life.

The newest guideline for non-surgical treatment for recent onset back and/or leg pain recommends patient education (incorporating a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!

24% of US adults seek chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults got chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients get chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines written by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical approaches like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain ended with a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these low back pain and leg pain patients go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? The primary care physicians wrote opioid prescriptions more and more. (4) Your Pflugerville chiropractor proposes a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.

But what motivates a visit to a chiropractor like your Pflugerville chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds correct for Pflugerville Wellness Center, too. Our Pflugerville chiropractic patients view us as the Pflugerville back and neck pain specialists!)  Additionally, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more prone to consult a chiropractor in the past year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% reported that having medical and chiropractic care was helpful. (1) Your Pflugerville chiropractor is excited to combine care! Pflugerville Wellness Center is ready to cooperate with your primary care physician whenever possible.

Schedule your Pflugerville chiropractic appointment today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all with you and desire the same thing: non-surgical pain relief suggested by the latest back pain care guidelines and improved quality of life for you, our shared Pflugerville back pain patient or neck pain patient.