Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain and not avoid life. That’s also the goal of your Sitka chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the Sitka 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 amazing! A recent survey found that chiropractors like yours at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka take pleasure in their profession most because they are capable to reduce pain as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power with their patients via an inclusive treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were reported as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation for quality care and wanted clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Sitka chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is a highlight of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers admit certain limitations in their study as they pulled a certain group of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Sitka, back pain sufferers get a partner at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka who can guide 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 truly at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain happens to be 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 seek more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take guidance from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Sitka back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka need to work on how each views back pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively relieves back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Make your next Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka today. In conjunction with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka attempts to offer our Sitka spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation.
