Satterwhite Chiropractic Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s also the goal of your Oxford chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Oxford back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the best! A recent survey reported that chiropractors like yours at Satterwhite Chiropractic relish their profession most as they are able to reduce pain as well as build strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via a thorough treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Oxford chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 elder adults. The researchers admit certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which resulted in 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability influences how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with more spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Oxford, back pain sufferers get a partner at Satterwhite Chiropractic who can help them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is realizing that the one who is really at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person suffering with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take support from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Oxford back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic must communicate how each sees back pain management to best reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care routine to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next Oxford chiropractic appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic now. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Satterwhite Chiropractic strives to offer our Oxford spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.
