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Sitka Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors

Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report attracted the attention of Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka as it explains the current state of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Sitka chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Sitka.

PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION

Medicare patients are older. They encounter conditions like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it, too. A new study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They served anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are used. Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians who provide spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is growing. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and organizer of the Council for Chiropractic Education that set up federal accreditation for chiropractic, always quoted to the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”

SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS

Chiropractic schools strive to incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at one chiropractic school found that 81% of them were trained in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders deemed preclinical technique courses were a good idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to establish a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Sitka chiropractic clinic.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped reduce low back pain for this military veteran. 

Set up your next Sitka chiropractic appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!

Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka uses spinal manipulation on a daily basis as a representative of the chiropractic profession which is recognized as being the profession of spinal manipulation practitioners.
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