Benefits of Continued Fort Wayne Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you may want to!”
Researchers are reporting on 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, continued function, and enhanced confidence in doing activities of daily living. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc leaves it up to our Fort Wayne 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 reduced, and function improved gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis, those who had the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more than once a week for chronic low back pain patients made a difference in terms of 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 share with 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 sorts of influences: social, biological, psychological, too. 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 boosts the outcomes. (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) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly 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) kept the patient asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as possible, and produced a steady reduction in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who underwent 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 positively impact pain and control 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) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc carefully designs a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal outcomes for each.
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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Robert Borzone on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares 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 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.
