Groton Chiropractic Care of Chronic Low Back Pain Can Help Reduce Cost & Pain
Chiropractic for chronic low back pain enhances pain relief, healthcare coordination, and in cost-of-care reduction. Chiropractic care first strives to stop back pain from turning chronic, keeping it from continuing to last over 3 months. Chiropractic care offers spinal manipulation therapy which is shown to help alleviate chronic low back pain and enhance coordination of care with other health professionals to help our patients best. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office helps the care of Groton chronic back pain patients cost-effecitvely utilizing gentle, safe, research-recorded protocols of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. We’re here for you!
SPINAL MANIPULATION LOWERS COST OF BACK PAIN CARE
Back pain is not inexpensive. With the cost of spine pain in the US valued to be $134.5 billion (1), Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is pretty sure that our chiropractic patients would welcome cost-effective care. A recent Canadian study of high-cost back pain patients in the healthcare system reported that they accounted for almost 50% of the healthcare spending in a year. (2) Another paper published results showing that spine-related pain patients who see a chiropractor initially also experienced reduced costs and healthcare services when compared to medical management. (1) We know our Groton chiropractic patients would appreciate coordination of care whenever possible among their healthcare providers to get the most economical and effective care.
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS WORKING TOGETHER
Healthcare professionals working together benefit patients dealing with Groton back and other spine-related conditions. A study in South Africa looked at the relationship and understanding of each other’s professions between chiropractors and physiotherapists. Interesting outcomes! Each profession evaluated the other’s in terms of what conditions it treated, what modalities it utilized, how well each did at helping neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Interprofessional referrals for chiropractors were 82% and 55% for physiotherapists though 69% of chiropractors and 55% of physiotherapists wanted to collaborate in managing patients for their pain relief. (3) We healthcare providers strive to keep our patients in the center of a treatment plan to lower their pain and healthcare usage.
SMT REDUCES PAIN OF BACK PAIN
For chronic low back pain patients, those whose pain lasts over 3 months and usually leads to emotional distress and physical disability and more healthcare utilization, 12 sessions of spinal manipulation delivered greater pain relief than a control intervention. (4) Another study of 1000 low back pain sufferers treated with Cox® Technic flexion distraction protocols also showed that a mean of 12 visits in 29 days produced maximum clinical improvement. Plus, fewer than 9% of the low back pain patients continued to the chronic phase. (5) Chronic pain prevention is a commendable effort!
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Vincent Pankonin on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how he helped his chronic back pain patient get relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
