“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are reporting on
support for chiropractic care in the shorter and longer
term also known as maintenance care. Advantages consist of
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, prolonged function, and enhanced
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Pflugerville Wellness Center leaves it up to our
Pflugerville chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies well.
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 got better with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they felt. These
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function improved
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis,
those who stated they had the worst pain went
for more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients impacted the outcome
toward more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Pflugerville Wellness Center is so glad to read about these published studies to share with our
Pflugerville back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Pflugerville back pain has biological, social,
and psychological influences]30] that should be addressed as well. A collection of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in
outcome which seems logical since adding
ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the 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) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once a
month 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, kept the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced a gradual decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who underwent
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 improve pain and manage symptoms while
exercise boosted self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to
self-handle their condition. (6) Pflugerville Wellness Center carefully creates
a treatment plan for each unique patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Pflugerville Wellness Center
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
shares 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 Pflugerville chiropractic
appointment with Pflugerville Wellness Center. 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.