Manahawkin Chiropractic and Back Pain Relief Expectations via Surgical or Conservative Care
What expectations do you have of your chiropractic care of Manahawkin back pain? That question is huge. Research reports that it plays a role in back pain treatment outcome whether that treatment is surgical or conservative. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center aims to listen to you and your expectations of our Manahawkin back pain treatment and present the outcomes of our treatment documented in practice and in research.
INFLUENTIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BACK SURGERY OUTCOMES
A recent research project scrutinized patient and surgeon expectations of back surgery. Patients expected complete relief and improvement of their back pain after lumbar spine surgery. Surgeons expected improvement that varied from a little to a lot dependant on the patient and his/her specific condition. Can you guess whose expectations were met? The surgeons’ expectations. A couple years after the back surgery, the patient-reported outcomes met the surgeon’s expectations. The researchers stressed that effective communication about expectations may well foster better outcomes. (1) That is why Manahawkin Chiropractic Center devotes time to each Manahawkin back pain patient at the beginning of care, ensuring that the source of pain and its treatment plan are well-described. If not, ask us!
AN ACCEPTABLE SYMPTOM STATE
If original patient expectations are not met with back surgery, what is an “acceptable symptom state” for that back pain patient? What can he/she live with? For patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (with or without active discopathy), 54% stated having an acceptable symptom state at 1 month of care. Specifically, patient-reported acceptable symptoms involved these: 47.5 for lumbar pain, 30.5 for radicular pain, 39.3 for disability, 10.0 for anxiety, and 6.7 for depression. (2) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center appreciates that no pain is the preferred state and is prepared to talk with our Manahawkin chiropractic patients their options and potential outcomes.
DECIDING ON TREATMENT OPTIONS
The question of back surgery is a big issue. Evidence-based medicine views the patient as being the center of care. What is the patient perspective of this care? How is the patient perspective regarded in treatment planning and choosing from available options? A new paper indicated that the patient’s social, psychological, and other non-clinical characteristics must be taken into account in planning care. (3) One issue in the back-surgery decision that reportedly impacts the decision and the outcome expectation is opioid use. Lower dose and shorter-time-taking opioid use patients expected more complete improvement opposed to non-users. They also had higher expectations of positive outcome than higher-dose opioid patients. (4) For many patients, the prospect of work is a light at the end of the tunnel which is positive according to a new report on how back pain patient recovery expectations influence clinical outcomes. A review of 60 studies found that a patient’s recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation. (5) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center uses effective, nonsurgical treatment of back pain to meet patient expectations once the research on outcomes for other back pain sufferers is presented and understood. Manahawkin chiropractic care keeps the back pain patient at its center.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Anthony Galante on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment assisted in the management of back pain for a patient who was absolutely positive about not wanting back surgery.
Make your next Manahawkin chiropractic visit today. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center wants to know your answer to the question of your expectations for our treatment so that we can both be satisfied with the outcome!
