Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Delivers Chiropractic Back Pain Relief
Back pain isn’t picky. Back pain may pick any of us at any time whether we’re stay-at-home workers or out-in-the-world workers, active military folks or veterans. Chiropractic’s reputation for helping back pain sufferers persists and grows in the civilian and veteran/military care systems. The more recent interest has been how much chiropractic care is optimal for back pain relief. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka follows this research since military/veteran back pain resembles our civilian Sitka back pain!
BACK PAIN INCIDENCE
80% of us will get back pain at some time in our lives, in our youth, middle years, or old age. 264 million work days were documented to be lost in one year because of back pain. (1) Sitka chiropractic care is created to help all ages! Somewhere between 25 and 33% of older folks reportedly get low back pain annually. Low back pain for older adults is described as being debilitating as it often limits their independence and multiplies their doctor visits. A study that merged chiropractic and primary care for their back pain resulted in modest improvements in their back pain and disability and higher patient satisfaction and perceived improvement over primary care only. (2) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka sees these same outcomes for our Sitka back pain patients! Older patients with chronic low back pain along with other medical issues who utilized only chiropractic spinal manipulation for their back pain had reduced overall costs of care, briefer episodes of back pain, and lower costs of care per back pain episode. (3) Back pain relief in a briefer time at less expense…a triple bonus for Sitka back pain sufferers!
BACK PAIN CARE WITH CHIROPRACTIC
Like the rest of us, military personnel and veterans experience back pain and experience relief with chiropractic treatment. Chiropractic is well-integrated into the VA system for veterans with low back pain and other musculoskeletal conditions. A recently proposed study of chiropractic care in Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities for low back pain sets out to see if low dose (1 to 5 visits) or higher dose (8 to 12 visits) chiropractic care for 10 weeks is most beneficial for chronic low back pain relief. (4) (The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management discovered in a study of 1000 back pain patients that 12 visits and 29 days were the mean number of visits and days to achieve maximum improvement for such patients. (5)) A similar finding was made when chiropractic care was inserted into usual medical care for active-duty military personnel who had low back pain. Moderate short-term improvement in back pain disability and intensity was reported. Multidisciplinary care of back pain that incorporates chiropractic is suggested to be beneficial. (6) The aim of Sitka chiropractic for back pain sufferers – civilian and military alike – is back pain relief. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is prepared to deliver that!
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Michael Dupriest on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes his role as a chiropractor in the VA in care of veterans and their back pain.
Make your next Sitka chiropractic appointment today. When back pain chooses you, you can choose Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka for relief.
