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Johnson Chiropractic Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain

Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That is also the goal of your Richmond chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership involving the Richmond back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).

CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER

Being a chiropractor is the best! A recent survey found that chiropractors like yours at Johnson Chiropractic relish their profession most because they are able to decrease pain as well as build strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients through a thorough treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were marked as “being trained to diagnose”the basis for quality care and wanted clinical outcomes! -  and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Richmond chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.

EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP

Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In Richmond, back pain sufferers get a partner at Johnson Chiropractic who can guide them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.

EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE

Medicine is recognizing that the one who is really at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain sufferer self-manages much of the time anyway and wants suggestions regarding how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take guidance from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Richmond back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Johnson Chiropractic need to communicate how each sees back pain management to best reduce the pain!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and successfully alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care routine to manage and stop another episode of back pain.

Make your next Richmond chiropractic appointment with Johnson Chiropractic now. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Johnson Chiropractic strives to offer our Richmond spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition. 

 
Johnson Chiropractic encourages back pain sufferers to manage their back pain so it does not mange them. 
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