Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain patient 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 Groton chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the Groton 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 reported that chiropractors like yours at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office enjoy their profession most as they are capable to decrease pain and increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients through a thorough treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were marked 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 Groton chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced 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 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they extracted 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 influences how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In Groton, back pain sufferers get a partner at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 suffering with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take encouragement from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the collaboration of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Groton back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office need to communicate how each views back pain management to most advantageously reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and successfully alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next Groton chiropractic appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today. Along with providing relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office attempts to give our Groton spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.
