Benefits of Continued Manahawkin Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want to!”
Researchers are reporting on support for chiropractic care in the short and long term also known as maintenance care. Advantages include pain relief and return of function in the short term and continued pain relief, sustained function, and greater confidence in taking part in activities of daily living. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center leaves it up to our Manahawkin 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 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 decreased, and function recovered gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of chiropractic visits was considered 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 greater improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist patients with their expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage. Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is so glad to see these types of studies published to present to our Manahawkin back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Manahawkin 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 helps. (2) Same with continued chiropractic care. Patients who followed 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 stood in the way of their following recommended maintenance care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care including cervical spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and associated retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal neighbors) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, kept the spine functioning as best as possible, and brought about a steady reduction in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain experienced 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) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center carefully designs a treatment plan for each unique 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 describes the benefit of continued chiropractic care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with a disc herniation.
Make your next Manahawkin chiropractic appointment with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. Our back pain and neck pain patients do not have to see us, but many do because they feel good and want to stay that way.
