“I don’t want this pain to get any worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients tend
to have different goals for their pain. The goal of healthcare policy is mostly
curative. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some semblance of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and
neck pain and acknowledges that often there is no “cure,” but
there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have experienced a few episodes with either condition acknowledge
this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their
experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control
to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain
episodes as quickly as possible. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is the
Fort Wayne chiropractic place for back and neck pain
patients. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is home of the Fort Wayne back pain
specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and
neck pain patients well. A recent study of
1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and
chronic neck pain (729) found their goals for
chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wished
for the pain to go away permanently
and tended to have experienced
pain for a briefer period of time and hold a stronger
belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain
and 16% of neck pain patients wished to
prevent their pain from returning and were
more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients wished to prevent their pain from
getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wished
temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups of patients tended to have had pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person
depending on their experience that chiropractors and other
healthcare providers really should understand. (1)
Such patient expectations are reported to predict
short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed
that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more apt
to report an improvement at the fourth appointment.
(2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare
providers working as a team
can raise low back pain patients’ likelihoods of
relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care depends on
patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And when it
comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is essential. (4) At Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc the
Fort Wayne back pain patient is at the center of everything
we do.
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares
his history of being a back pain patient desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
helped him.
Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic visit with
your Fort Wayne back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.
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