Johnson Chiropractic Relieves Chronic Neck and Back Pain
“How many visits will I have to make, doc?” A common question for your Richmond chiropractor. Chiropractic care at Johnson Chiropractic follows an evidence-based algorithm of care backed by clinical research that goes back to the 1970’s: The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. Recent research bears out the system and its goals in which Richmond chiropractic patients can find peace as they heal.
CHIROPRACTIC USE
Richmond chiropractic patients wouldn’t be chiropractic patients if it didn’t help. The latest study of who utilizes chiropractic was done in Malaysia: 35% of Malayasians used chiropractic. Though it was slightly below traditional and complementary medicine care usage there, it is a good number! (1) Approximately 25% of U.S. residents sought chiropractic for back and neck pain care. 35 million U.S. adults went to a chiropractor in the past year. (2) That number is growing as additional people pursue and find a non-surgical, conservative approach to pain relief in chiropractic knowing that it may require a few visits to obtain relief. Johnson Chiropractic is committed to setting a realistic treatment plan for the best possible outcome.
RECENT RESEARCH RESULTS OF CHIROPRACTIC CARE AT 3 MONTHS
Curious about how many chiropractic visits patients use and the outcomes? A recent study reported that in 1,362 chronic low back pain patients and 1,214 chronic neck pain patients’ function improved and back and neck pain reduced with chiropractic care in three months. Those who reported worse pain at first had more chiropractic visits. Chronic low back pain sufferers who went to the chiropractor more than once a week benefitted more. At 3 months, chronic back and neck pain patients were improving slowly, may have even attained maximum improvement, and were potentially managing their chronic pain using a range of chiropractic visit frequencies. (3) That is our goal, too, at Johnson Chiropractic: educate our Richmond back pain and neck pain patients about how they can support themselves with pain management and prevention! With Cox® Technic, 12 visits and 29 days were the mean days and visits to improvement in a study of 1000 patients. Disc herniations did take a little longer and required more visits than sprain/strains. (4) Johnson Chiropractic shares statistics like this to assist our chiropractic patients make realistic expectations.
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS WITH CHIROPRACTIC CARE
Richmond chronic back and neck pain patients are realistic. Despite health policy today that seems to pursue a cure for whatever ails, most chronic spine pain patients want pain management that they understand will necessitate ongoing care rather than “cure” from their chiropractic care. (5) Cox® Technic implemented at Johnson Chiropractic has always presented the notion of “control not cure” when it comes to most neck pain and back pain issues. It resonates with neck pain and back pain sufferers who have looked for care from a variety of different healthcare professionals that they “get” it. The 50% Rule of Cox® Technic makes sense to them: 50% relief in 30 days or referral for imaging or other consultation, 50% relief decreases the visit frequency by 50%, 50% relief changes the treatment from Protocol I to Protocol II, etc. The chiropractic care system of Cox® Technic follows an established algorithm that provides patients realistic expectations.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Tony Barton on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates his care of a nurse suffering with chronic back pain that The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped.
Make your next Richmond chiropractic appointment soon. We will work together to maximize your improvement and set your home care plan for continued pain relief and prevention in the fewest realistic visits possible!
