“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are stating
support for chiropractic care in the short and long
term also known as maintenance care. Benefits consist of
pain relief and return of function in the short term and continued
pain relief, sustained function, and boosted
confidence in performing activities of daily living.
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc leaves it up to our
Fort Wayne chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies well.
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 experienced. The involved
patients were found to suffer with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, and function recovered
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis,
those who had the worst pain went
for 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 more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is so glad to read about these published studies to present to our
Fort Wayne back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Fort Wayne back pain has all
types of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A collection of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in
outcome which seems logical since inserting
ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the 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) A patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating 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 steady reduction
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was considered
to improve pain and control symptoms while
exercise boosted self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to
self-manage their condition. (6) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc carefully creates
a treatment plan for each individual patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
shares the effectiveness of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Schedule your next Fort Wayne chiropractic
appointment with Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc. 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.