Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Treats the Patient Not the MRI
Why do patients opt for back surgery? Pain. What conditions give them the most trouble that leads them to back surgery? Spinal stenosis. Spondylolisthesis. What symptoms do they want gone? Butt pain. Leg pain. Back pain. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is here as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain patients, Baton Rouge chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients describe all sorts of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal pain. (The saying that something is a “pain in the butt” is a preceise description of some back pain patients’ pain! That pain is a more radicular source than degenerative change of facet joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most usual reason for back surgery for US adults. A study of stenosis patients who have withstood at least 3 years of suffering revealed that manual therapy and individualized exercise excelled in helping the most patients receive more than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seeks at least 50% relief in 30 days with lots of patients finding 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% quicker than that! Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers recognizes that there are Baton Rouge back pain sufferers who would rejoice at non-surgical relief like that!
BACK SURGERY: NECESSITY, COST AND IMAGING
Just how many back-pain sufferers with spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis require surgery? 0.8%. This is reported in a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of this paper recommended doing decompression surgery without or with fusion earlier to lower the cost of non-operative treatment. (3) Goodness! The cost of a fusion in 2006 was $40,000 (4) and $80,000 to $100,000 in 2013, making back pain the top cause of disability in the world before 290 other conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is reported to be just 2.9% of the expense of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added cost to back pain management: 1 in 4 (25%) of patients who go to a primary care doctors and 1 in 3 (33%) who go to the emergency room got imaging. (7) And what does imaging add to patient care and clinical outcome? Interesting question. There is no correlation between MRI findings for stenosis and the severity of pain, quality of life, depression or anxiety. (8, 9) What does boost patient care and clinical outcome? Collaboration between physicians – surgical and non-surgical spine experts – helps chronic back pain patients improve in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers invites such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! Your feeling better is our goal!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Olding shares lumbar spinal stenosis care with Cox® Technic that let a woman continue living life her way!
Schedule a non-surgical Baton Rouge chiropractic care appointment with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers today. Physical, mental and emotional pain relief may be eased and back surgery dodged with gentle, safe chiropractic care at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers where patient care revolves around the patient not the MRI!
