Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively
Have you heard it said that numbers don’t lie? There are lots of numbers available in the world of back pain and neck pain statistics regarding costs and outcomes. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center shares a few of the latest ones that are really interesting and supportive of our Manahawkin chiropractic approach using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS
Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-established. Are they observed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 had persistent low back pain. These patients were not surgical candidates and had experienced conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% utilized physical therapy, 50% underwent chiropractic, 26% received steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. At odds with guidelines for low back pain treatment, most patients were prescribed opioids while several non-drug treatments were used by only a few. (1) Another report detailed that 775,893 general practitioner visits resulted in 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-pharmacological treatment choice for commonly referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were very substantial. (1) Manahawkin back pain treatment costs are not that different.
COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE
According to a review of Humana insurance claims, the pre-operative costs of conservative treatment options for cervical spine radiculopathy were just 37.7% of the overall non-operative expenses for this condition. Injection costs were the greatest, coming in at $988 on average per patient. Other costs were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), then chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy were for diagnostic tests and such. (3) Manahawkin neck and back pain sufferers have an experienced chiropractic option in their chiropractor at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center.
INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE
New data showed a 106% increase in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that resulted in referral to another physician partly because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that presented this finding ended with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would meet with a surgeon as their first subspecialty referral visit. Additionally, patients who are less likely to require surgery would see a non-surgical spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Manahawkin chiropractor at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is ready to be the Manahawkin non-surgical spine specialist this article describes for our Manahawkin low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT
Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% gave an account of ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more decrease in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seek at least 50% reduction of pain non-surgically in a month. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly more with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them reported greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had greater than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was continued: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Manahawkin chiropractor provides just such relief and knows when to refer if necessary.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporation for reducing post-surgical continued back pain.
Schedule your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment soon. Don’t let numbers worry you. Let them enlighten your path to pain relief. See you soon!
