Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Offers Realistic Back Pain Relief Expectations

Let us be honest. You want 100% relief of your Groton back pain and have it never return. Heck, you did not want it to bother you in the first place! Well, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office wants that for you, too. But reality gets in the way. The research comes out. Realistic expectations are described. Documented treatment outcomes guide you and Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office as we travel together toward healing and improved quality of life with back pain.

MEDICAL CLINICAL EXPECTATION

Medicine today reports 30% minimal clinical improvement as good enough to warrant the use of a treatment approach. (1) The “minimal clinically important difference” is an indicator of the helpfulness of treatment. In an extensive review of published reports, the relative percent was revealed as 32%. (2) “Good” outcome of medical primary care for sciatica and leg pain was only 30% reduction in disability. 55% of patients were improved at one year. (1) Another set of researchers reported that a 20 point move on a 100 point scale is a good outcome.  A modification of 19% on an Oswestry pain scale and 2 points on a 10 points visual analogue scale is thought to be successful reduction in pain for a patient with continued postoperative spine pain. (3) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows Groton back pain patients desire more relief than that. Setting up realistic expectations from the beginning improves the odds of a satisfactory outcome for our Groton chiropractic patients.

CHIROPRACTIC ROLE IN BACK PAIN RELIEF

Chiropractic is often classified as alternative medicine. Chiropractic strives to address the source of spine-related pain with spine treatment, exercise, nutrition, etc., while allopathic medicine seeks to remove the offending cause of pain by drug or invasive methods. (4) One study comparing the two approaches demonstrated that at 2 months of care, older adults with lumbar spine stenosis treated with manual therapy and exercise fared better than medical care and group exercise. (5) Another study of older adults with back pain stated 50% improvement in back pain and 43% in disability after 2 years of care. The honest truth: fewer than 20% of these patients had complete resolution of pain and disability, but they were better. (6) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office helps many Groton back pain and stenosis patients honestly establish realistic expectations for clinical improvement of their back pain conditions undergoing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

CLINICAL OUTCOMES WITH COX® TECHNIC

Cox® Technic has always sought at least 50% relief within 30 days before doing another treatment protocol or arranging appointments for more advanced imaging tests or referral for surgical consultation (always making sure that there is no sign of progressive neurological deficit or caudal equina syndrome/change in bowel or urinary function which would call for a more immediate action). (7) For years, 50% didn’t seem like enough. Today, it’s amazing relief compared with the new medical and surgical expectation of 20% to 30% relief. One more recent study reports even more relief with Cox® Technic: Spinal stenosis patients improved in pain by 76% and disability by 73%. (8) How might such improvement come? Horizontal traction was shown much more effective in enlarging disc height of lower lumbar discs. (9) Cox® Technic distraction manipulation was found to enlarge the area by 28%. (10) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows many Groton back pain patients whose 20% relief of pain excited them as it permitted them to walk in the park or go to the grocery store or play with the grandkids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Wanda Lopez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose patient was elated that she could take a walk in Central Park without pain.

CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office

Schedule your next chiropractic appointment at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office today. We will be honest. We will discuss treatment outcome expectations with you. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is on your side and committed to helping you realize the Groton back pain relief you want.