Seeing Your Oxford Chiropractor Reduces Your Chance of Back Surgery

Wanting to avoid having back surgery is natural. Your spine is with you on that!

Best of all, visiting a chiropractor like your very own Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic TO START for back pain relief lowers the odds of back surgery! Spine journal says so!

The May 2013 issue of the top-rated spine journal in medicine, Spine, publishes the findings of a study of back surgery patients to get some statistics. (1) These are most interesting:

  • only 1.5% of those who saw a CHIROPRACTOR FIRST had surgery.
  • 42.7% of those who saw a SURGEON FIRST had surgery.
image of chiropractic alternative to back surgeryDeterminants that lowered the odds of back surgery were observed for those:
  • younger than 35 years,
  • females,
  • Hispanics, and
  • those whose initial provider was a chiropractor.

Nearly 42.7% of workers who first saw a surgeon first for their back pain had surgery in contrast to only 1.5% of those who saw a chiropractor first. So see your Oxford chiropractor at Satterwhite Chiropractic first!

Spread the word about chiropractic services for back pain sufferers! Non-surgical care of your back pain may be the answer you are seeking. Tell your Oxford back pain friends that Satterwhite Chiropractic is here for them. Seeing back pain patients before surgery is optimal, but, of course, Satterwhite Chiropractic takes on those patients who experience post-surgical continued back pain, too! (More on that is coming soon…) Trust us with all your spinal needs! Contact Satterwhite Chiropractic today.

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