Baton Rouge Chiropractic and Back Pain Relief Expectations via Surgical or Conservative Care

What do you expect from your chiropractic care of Baton Rouge back pain? That is a pivotal question. Research is reporting that it has a role in back pain treatment outcome be the treatment surgical or conservative. Spine & Sports Rehab Center intends to hear your expectations of our Baton Rouge back pain treatment and present what our treatment’s outcomes have been in practice and in research.

INFLUENTIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BACK SURGERY OUTCOMES

A recent research project studied patient and surgeon expectations of back surgery. Patients expected complete relief and improvement of their back pain after lumbar spine surgery. Surgeons expected improvement that varied from a little to a lot depending on the patient and his/her specific condition. Can you guess whose expectations were met? The surgeons’ expectations. Two years after the back surgery, the outcomes reported by patients met the surgeon’s expectations. The researchers emphasized that effective communication about expectations may well foster better outcomes. (1) That is why Spine & Sports Rehab Center spends time with each Baton Rouge back pain patient early on in care, making sure the source of pain and its treatment plan are well-described. If not, tell us!

AN ACCEPTABLE SYMPTOM STATE

If a patient doesn’t get the relief he/she wanted from back surgery, what is an “acceptable symptom state” for that back pain patient? What can he/she live with? For patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (with or without active discopathy), 54% reported having an acceptable symptom state at 1 month of care. Specifically, patient-reported acceptable symptoms involved these: 47.5 for lumbar pain, 30.5 for radicular pain, 39.3 for disability, 10.0 for anxiety, and 6.7 for depression. (2) Spine & Sports Rehab Center realizes no pain is the preferred state and is ready to talk with our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients their options and possible outcomes.

DECIDING ON TREATMENT OPTIONS

Deciding whether to have back surgery is a big decision. Evidence-based medicine views the patient as being the center of care. What is the patient perspective of this care? How is the patient perspective regarded in treatment planning and choosing from available options? A recent paper indicated that the patient’s social, psychological, and other non-clinical characteristics must be considered in planning care. (3) One factor in the back-surgery decision that reportedly influences the decision and the outcome expectation is opioid use. Lower dose and shorter-time-taking opioid use patients expected more complete improvement compared with non-users. They also had higher expectations of positive outcome than higher-dose opioid patients. (4) For a lot of patients, the prospect of work is a light at the end of the tunnel which is positive according to a new report on how back pain patient recovery expectations affect clinical outcomes. A review of 60 studies reported that a patient’s recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation. (5) Spine & Sports Rehab Center applies effective, nonsurgical treatment of back pain to meet patient expectations once the research on outcomes for other back pain sufferers is described and understood. Baton Rouge chiropractic care keeps the back pain patient at its center.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Anthony Galante on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explained how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment helped manage back pain for a patient who was absolutely positive about not wanting back surgery.

Set your next Baton Rouge chiropractic visit soon. Spine & Sports Rehab Center wants to know your answer to the question of your expectations for our treatment so that we can both be happy with the outcome!

 
Spine & Sports Rehab Center strives to meet realistic patient expectations regarding conservative back pain relief. 
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