“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, 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. Benefits include
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, continued function, and higher
confidence in performing 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 analyzed
how quickly they got better with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they felt. These
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function improved
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was considered in the analysis,
those who stated they had the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients made a difference in terms of more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help 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 share with 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
types 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 kept to the maintenance care
recommendations reported fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who adhered to
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) A 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, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and brought about a gradual decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who got
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought
to positively impact pain and manage symptoms while
exercise supported self-efficacy and confidence in being
able to stay active and mobile and in being able to
self-handle their condition. (6) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center carefully creates
a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Manahawkin Chiropractic Center
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.
Schedule 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 keep feeling good.