Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a place in managing and relieving pain that should not be ignored. Primary care physicians do not feel very confident treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the largest prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who takes care of 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic sees many pain patients and eases a lot of Fernandina Beach back pain often with no opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

The following stats are founded on a large study of 478,981 freshly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who start utilizing opiates for pain relief. (2)

• 40.4% of pain patients accepted opioid prescriptions for the first time inside the first year of pain while only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
• Family practice doctors are the most common first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
• Patients who seek care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most certainly to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
• Patients diagnosed first by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have a higher risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Amelia Chiropractic Clinic invites pain patients to seek Fernandina Beach chiropractic care first!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) take care of chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least likely physicians to feel confident treating musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic confidently offer non-drug management and/or co-management with other providers for the pain relief and pain control for Fernandina Beach back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

Amelia Chiropractic Clinic ponders why chiropractors are not more readily considered in the process for Fernandina Beach pain relief, particularly Fernandina Beach back pain relief. Chiropractic services intergrate spinal manipulation (one of the highest recommended forms of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What stops some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also shares that patients think their medical doctor understands nutrition. (4) And that’s fine if healthcare professionals coordinated care along their lines of expertise, recognizing that each offers value in the care of the pain patient and has the best welfare of the patient at heart. Chiropractors are proficient in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Recognizing that a healthcare provider’s profession effects his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for Fernandina Beach back pain patient care are established to try to utilize the expertise maximally. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient gets a consistent therapy message with current treatment guidelines. Activity messages do vary by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more aligned with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works with other local Fernandina Beach healthcare providers for patient care, valuing their expertise and contribution to Fernandina Beach back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day better.

CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic

Schedule a Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow Fernandina Beach healthcare providers and to give you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.