Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic
Back pain care guidelines recommend non-surgical care methods like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A new study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your Groton chiropractor at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office welcome that role. Your Groton chiropractor helps Groton back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and enhance their quality of life.
The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment for recent onset back and/or leg pain recommends patient education (including a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!
24% of US adults seek chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults got chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients seek chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines drawn up by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical methods like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are frustrated! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain resulted in a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these patients with low back pain and leg pain go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? They received opioid prescriptions more often. (4) Your Groton chiropractor offers a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.
But what motivates a visit to a chiropractor like your Groton chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds right for Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office, too. Our Groton chiropractic patients view the back pain specialists at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office as back and neck pain relief specialists!) Further, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more prone to visit a chiropractor in the past 12 months. 23% of the chiropractic patients also received a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the same issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% reported that the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your Groton chiropractor is excited to combine care! Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is ready to cooperate with your primary care physician as necessary.
Schedule your Groton chiropractic visit today. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office will reach out to your primary care physician. We are all on your side and want the same thing: non-surgical pain relief suggested by the most recent back pain care guidelines and better quality of life for you, our shared Groton back pain patient or neck pain patient.
