Why do patients have back surgery? Pain. What conditions
give them the most trouble that leads them to
back surgery? Spinal stenosis. Spondylolisthesis. What symptoms do they want gone? Butt pain. Leg pain. Back pain. Johnson Chiropractic is here
as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain
patients, Richmond chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients describe all types
of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal
pain. (The adage that something is a “pain in the butt” is a preceise
portrayal of some back pain patients’ pain! It
is a more radicular source than degenerative change of facet
joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common reason
for back surgery in the US for adults. A research
study of stenosis patients who have endured at least 3
years of pain showed that manual therapy and
individualized exercise helped the most patients receive
greater than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our
use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seeks at
least 50% relief in 30 days with lots of patients finding
60%, 70%, 80% and 90% sooner than that! Johnson Chiropractic knows Richmond back pain sufferers who would celebrate with non-surgical relief like that!
BACK SURGERY: NECESSITY, COST AND IMAGING
Just how many back-pain patients with spinal
stenosis or spondylolisthesis require surgery? 0.8%. This comes
from a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of
this paper suggested doing decompression surgery without or
with fusion sooner to reduce the cost
of non-operative treatment. (3) Goodness! The cost of a fusion in
2006 was $40,000 (4) and $80,000 to $100,000 in 2013, making back pain the leading
cause of disability in the world ahead of 290 other
conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is reported to be just 2.9% of the expense
of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added expense to the
treatment of back pain: 1 in 4 (25%) of patients who
go to a primary care doctors and 1 in 3 (33%) who go to the emergency room got
imaging. (7) And how does imaging enhance patient
care and clinical outcome? Interesting question. There is no
correlation between MRI findings for stenosis and the severity of pain, quality
of life, depression or anxiety. (8, 9) What does enhance patient
care and clinical outcome? Collaboration between physicians – surgical and
non-surgical spine experts – aids chronic back pain patients recover
in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Johnson Chiropractic invites
such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! We want you to feel
better!
CONTACT Johnson Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
by Dr. Kurt Olding on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Olding shares
lumbar spinal stenosis care with Cox® Technic that allowed a woman to continue doing what she loved!
Schedule a non-surgical Richmond chiropractic care
appointment with Johnson Chiropractic today. Physical, mental and emotional pain
relief may be relieved and back surgery avoided with
gentle, safe chiropractic care at Johnson Chiropractic where patient care is based on the patient not the MRI!
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