“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are documenting the
support for chiropractic care in the shorter and longer
term also known as maintenance care. Benefits include
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, sustained function, and boosted
confidence in taking part in activities of daily living.
Back And Neck Care Center leaves it up to our
Severna Park chiropractic clients who 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 examined
how quickly they got better with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they experienced. The involved
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, 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 when chronic low back pain patients made visits
more than one time a week was the impact beneficial and impacted the outcome
toward more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Back And Neck Care Center is so glad to see these
types of studies published to present to our
Severna Park back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Severna Park back pain has all
sorts of influences: social, biological, psychological, too. 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 helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who followed maintenance care
recommendations reported 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 stood in
the way of their following recommended maintenance
care. (4) A 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) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, kept the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced a steady decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who got
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 manage symptoms while
exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence in being
able to stay active and mobile and in being able to
self-manage their condition. (6) Back And Neck Care Center carefully creates
a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Back And Neck Care Center
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
explains 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 Severna Park chiropractic
appointment with Back And Neck Care Center. Our back pain and neck pain patients do
not have to see us, but many do because they feel
good and want to stay that way.