Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively
They say numbers don’t lie. There are lots of numbers available in the world of back pain and neck pain statistics regarding costs and outcomes. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic presents a few of the latest ones that are really interesting and reassuring of our Fernandina Beach chiropractic method integrating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS
Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-published. Are they observed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 experienced persistent low back pain. These patients weren’t surgical candidates and had experienced conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% utilized physical therapy, 50% underwent chiropractic, 26% received steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. In contradiction to low back pain treatment guidelines, most patients were prescribed opioids while several non-drug treatments were utilized by only a few. (1) Another report stated that 775,893 general practitioner visits resulted in 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-pharmacological treatment option for commonly referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were very substantial. (1) Fernandina Beach back pain treatment costs don’t vary that much.
COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE
A review of Humana healthcare claims resulted in these findings: the pre-surgical costs of conservative treatment options for cervical spine radiculopathy were only 37.7% of the overall non-surgical expenses for this condition. Injection costs were the greatest, costing $988 on average per patient. Other expenses were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), and chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy went to diagnostic modalities. (3) Fernandina Beach neck and back pain sufferers have an experienced chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic.
INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE
Recent data revealed a 106% rise in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that led to a referral to another physician partially because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that talked about this finding ended with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would be referred to as their first subspeciality, a surgeon. Additionally, patients who are less likely to require surgery would see a non-surgical spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is well-prepared to be the Fernandina Beach non-surgical spine specialist this article describes for our Fernandina Beach low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT
Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% reported ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more decrease in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management strive for at minimum a 50% decrease of pain non-surgically in a month. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly more with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them scored greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had more than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was continued: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor provides just such relief and knows when to refer if needed.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration for relieving post-surgical continued back pain.
Schedule your Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment today. Don’t let numbers concern you. Let them enlighten your path to pain relief. See you soon!
