Oxford Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation often goes like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Oxford attending a meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My brother has the worst back pain and pain down the leg!”
Your Oxford chiropractor enjoys this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever! Oxford chiropractic patients at Satterwhite Chiropractic know this for sure. Your Oxford chiropractor embraces the status as the Oxford back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so exciting and engaging! Satterwhite Chiropractic understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and isn’t bashful in the least about telling everyone in Oxford.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You’ve heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant for Gallup partnered with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for a study that found that 78% of American adults would rather use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to deal with pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults thought physical therapy and chiropractic care as very effective and safe when compared to pain medications. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about Chiropractors,” he stressed how bad the opioid crisis is in the US and that evidence-based non-drug approaches like spinal manipulation are reasonable alternatives. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers concluded that chiropractic is viewed by society as a profession of health care providers who are experts in spine care as their education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing involve spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed that chiropractic care successfully relieved neck and back pain. 52.6% believed chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Satterwhite Chiropractic understands this. Satterwhite Chiropractic sees that Oxford back pain and neck pain patients find relief with the Oxford chiropractic care and then rely on Satterwhite Chiropractic to point them in other healthy approaches to control their back pain conditions and improve their health and spine to prevent future unpleasant health and/or spinal pain issues.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially educated to care for patients with spinal disease, primary spine practitioners play many responsibilities: diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), provide evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise, education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and organize all facets of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It is an extensive job with plenty of responsibility! It’s absolutely the job your Oxford chiropractor embraces! What do Oxford back pain sufferers wants? Consumers want access to non-drug therapies provided by spine care experts like chiropractors first. Such access benefits in a few ways. One is improving the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is possibly curbing the opioid epidemic. The American College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically say that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Satterwhite Chiropractic is here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Oxford SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a patient who does not want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Oxford chiropractic appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic to discover the benefit of having the Oxford back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in many cases.
