When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation
often goes like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Richmond attending a
meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Really? My neck is really hurting.”
Your Richmond chiropractor welcomes
this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever!
Richmond chiropractic patients at Johnson Chiropractic know this for sure. Your Richmond chiropractor enjoys
the status as the Richmond back pain specialist.
Being a primary spine practitioner is so stimulating and engaging!
Johnson Chiropractic knows back pain and neck pain, is a specialty
clinic for spine pain patients, and isn’t reluctant
at all about letting everyone know in
Richmond.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant
for Gallup partnered with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for
a study that revealed that 78% of American adults would rather use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with
pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults believed
physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe
when compared to pain medications. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and
in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about
Chiropractors,” he emphasized how bad the opioid crisis is in
the US and that evidence-based non-drug options like
spinal manipulation are practical
options. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers concluded
that chiropractic is viewed by society as a profession of health
care providers who are experts in spine care as their
education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing involve spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed
that chiropractic care successfully
relieved neck and back pain. 52.6% thought
chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Johnson Chiropractic gets
this. Johnson Chiropractic knows that Richmond back pain
and neck pain patients find relief with the
Richmond chiropractic care and then trust
Johnson Chiropractic to point them in other healthy approaches to
control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and
spine to prevent future unpleasant health and/or spinal
pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially trained to care for patients with
spinal disease, primary spine practitioners play many tasks:
diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), present
evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise,
education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept
the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and direct
all phases of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when
needed). (4) It is an extensive job with plenty
of responsibility! It’s precisely the role
your Richmond chiropractor enjoys most! What do
Richmond back pain sufferers wants? Consumers want
access to non-drug therapies provided by spine care
experts like chiropractors first. Such access helps
in a few ways. One is improving the value of
spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care
shortage. (1,5) Three is lessening the cost of care. (6) Four is
possibly reining in the opioid epidemic. The American
College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically say
that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options
like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Johnson Chiropractic is
here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Richmond SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST
about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a
patient who doesn’t want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Richmond chiropractic
appointment with Johnson Chiropractic to discover
the benefit of having the Richmond back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in most
cases.