Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain and not avoid life. That is
also the goal of your Baton Rouge chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Baton Rouge
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 new survey reported that chiropractors like
yours at Spine & Sports Rehab Center relish their profession
most because they are able to reduce pain
as well as build strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients via an inclusive
treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were
noted 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 Baton Rouge chiropractor concurs! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain
issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered
how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician
decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 mature
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7
conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers admit
certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific
set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported
at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which resulted
in 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the
Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects
how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered
by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated
with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In Baton Rouge , back
pain sufferers have a partner at Spine & Sports Rehab Center who can help
them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is realizing
that the one who is truly at the center of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person experiencing
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain happens to be the chronic
issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of
the time anyway and needs suggestions about
how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to manage
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take support from clinicians regarding education about the condition and the collaboration
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Baton Rouge back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Spine & Sports Rehab Center
must work on how each views back
pain management to best help the patient!
CONTACT Spine & Sports Rehab Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Keith Bartley on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management gently and successfully
eases 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 Baton Rouge
chiropractic appointment with Spine & Sports Rehab Center today. Along with providing relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Spine & Sports Rehab Center attempts to give
our Baton Rouge spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.