Groton Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines
Back pain appears. Back pain hangs around sporadically. Back pain leaves for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its path, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to go away. The hope of a fast relieving pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are out there. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Groton back pain and neck pain that pleases!
RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE
Radicular low back pain – radiating-down-the-leg back pain – is many times the most annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were commonly prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation affected the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The risk of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly lower for those undergoing chiropractic spinal manipulation. The odds did rise a bit as the back pain stuck around: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also questioned whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications changed this. Their sensitivity analysis did not have anything to do with the odds. The study concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly reduced the odds of a prescription for and affected the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who started with the chiropractic manipulation path were more apt to get published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Groton back pain sufferers wondering where to go for their back pain: Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office!
OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers with acute onset, preliminary episode of back pain commonly go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in this setting was reported as not always adhering to clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. In 2016, researchers reported that such early opioid prescribing for uncomplicated acute low back pain built up the long-term use of opioids as well as the cost of care notwithstanding the fact that there are a variety of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) Groton back pain sufferers who come to Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office find other non-drug care that is recommended for relief of back pain.
RECOMMENDED BACK PAIN TREATMENT OPTIONS
The American College of Physicians published recommendations for care of low back pain in 2009. (3) Spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain in adults. Chiropractors make up 97%-98% of the spinal manipulation providers. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether the recommendations were followed showed some eye-opening facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people gave rise to 545 low back pain sufferers who sought case from a medical doctor in the past 12 months. They were asked what form of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed that care. 96% said they were given a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor advised drug and non-drug therapies. 76% - NSAIDs and acetaminophen. 79% - self-care treatments. 37% - massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation. 60% - physical therapy. Nearly 66% said prescriptions (benzodiazepine, opioids, gabapentin, Neurontin, cortisone injections) were advised. Follow through on the recommendations by patients varied from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office deliveres safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.
CONTACT Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.
Make your Groton chiropractic appointment today. Back pain - be it acute or chronic, sudden or lingering – may well find relief in recommended spinal manipulation care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office.
