Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Respects the Painful Spine with Evidence-Based Care
The spine merits respect. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers respects all Baton Rouge spines, those in good shape and those in not so good shape. When the spine hurts, it gets attention. The attention the hurting spine gets is not always respectful of the guidelines for its pain relief. That fact is receiving notice in the medical research. Evidence based guidelines for a painful spine’s care abound, but they aren’t always used. They are published but not always read or implemented. The spine deserves better. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor respects the spine and complements its trouble to the best evidence-based protocol for its relief which is often times non-surgical and non-drug.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES AND APPROACHES
What is recommended and/or favorable for spine pain often provided even in Baton Rouge? The American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians advocate spinal manipulation for low back pain. (1) Flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic) and manual therapy using joint mobilization techniques and flexion distraction is reported to be effective for low back pain relief. (2) Spinal manipulation as a conservative treatment should be tried by patients with chronic low back pain and disability related to low back pain. (3) Flexion distraction delivers clinically meaningful improvement in pain by 79% and disability by 70% at 14.5 months follow-up. (4) Research reports that surgical approaches and outcomes differ from place to place for patients with the same condition. It pleas for standardization of care and the establishment of international guidelines built regarding what works best according to such evidence. (5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers agrees that published guidelines showing what is most effective require respectful use.
CLINICAL REALITY
What is being done? A just released article that assessed the care of Canadian spine pain patients referred for spine surgery came out and stated that “Surgeons do not use clinical practice guidelines before spine surgery.” What did they do? Prescribed medications to 74.2% of them 46.3% of whom got opioids. 61.1% of patients tried two or fewer non-surgical forms of treatment. The article proposes that if patients attempted to use evidence-based non-operative treatments before a spine surgery consultation, fewer would be referred and, in Canada, fewer would get worse as they have to wait so long to get to the surgeon. (6) Lumbar cage fusion rates rose from 3.6% to 58% in 5 years that resulted in higher complication risk without any improvement in disability or reoperation rates. (7) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers delivers Baton Rouge chiropractic spine care with less intrusive, more effective means, specifically with the evidence-based protocols of Cox Technic.
MAKE A Baton Rouge CHIROPRACTIC APPOINTMENT
Listen to this PODCAST with medical doctor, Dr. David Moen, who supports non-surgical care of back pain with chiropractic for less costly and unnecessary medical care.
Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic consultation today with the Baton Rouge spine specialist at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers where your hurting spine is seen with respect and relieving care as evidence says is best.
