“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want
to!”
Researchers are stating
support for chiropractic care in the short and long
term also known as maintenance care. Advantages consist of
pain relief and return of function in the short term and continued
pain relief, continued function, and boosted
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic trusts our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients to make
the best decision for their condition as they know themselves and their
bodies best.
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. The involved
patients were found to suffer with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function recovered
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was considered in the analysis,
those who experienced the worst pain had more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits
more than once a week was the impact beneficial and made a difference in regards to greater
improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Amelia Chiropractic Clinic is so glad to see these
types of studies published to share with our
Fernandina Beach back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Fernandina Beach 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 uncovered a relatively small difference in
outcome which seems logical since adding
ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who followed maintenance care
recommendations noted fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who followed
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-monthly maintenance care including cervical
spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related
retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal
neighbors) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced a gradual reduction
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain experienced
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought
to improve pain and control symptoms while
exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to
self-manage their condition. (6) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic carefully designs
a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractic
appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. 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.