Groton Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report attracted the attention of Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office as it describes the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Groton chiropractor endeavors to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Groton.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They deal with spine issues like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What’s the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically delivers the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are today. Chiropractors are still most commonly recognized for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare sees it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They uncovered 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 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought. Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types 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 general supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors delivering spinal manipulation is growing. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education which established federal accreditation for chiropractic, always told the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools aim to incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A new survey of faculty at one chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled 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 educated via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders considered 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 set up 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. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic used in this Groton 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 illustrates how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office who delivers spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!
