Richmond Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation often sounds 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 enjoys this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever! Richmond chiropractic patients at Johnson Chiropractic know this for sure. Your Richmond chiropractor embraces the status as the Richmond back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so exciting and inviting! Johnson Chiropractic understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and isn’t shy at all about telling everyone in Richmond.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant for Gallup teamed up with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for a study that revealed that 78% of American adults would prefer to use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults thought physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe when compared to pain meds. 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 methods like spinal manipulation are rational options. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers concluded that chiropractic is seen 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 revolve around spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults believed that chiropractic care was valuable in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% thought chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Johnson Chiropractic gets this. Johnson Chiropractic sees that Richmond back pain and neck pain patients find relieving help 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 avert future adverse health and/or spinal pain issues.
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.), give 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 coordinate all phases of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It’s a big job with plenty of responsibility! It’s just 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 several ways. One is increasing the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is possibly curbing 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 investigate the benefit of having the Richmond back pain specialist taking care of your back pain and spine pain without medications in many cases.
