Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a place in managing and relieving pain that should not be overlooked. Primary care physicians are not very confident in treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the largest prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who takes care of 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Baton Rouge chiropractor at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers treats many pain patients and eases plenty of Baton Rouge back pain often without opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

The following stats are based on a huge study of 478,981 newly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who start taking opiates for pain relief. (2)

• 40.4% of pain patients accepted opioid prescriptions originally inside the first year of pain but only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
• Family practice doctors are the most usual first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
• Patients who look for care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most certainly to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
• Patients diagnosed first by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have an increased risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers invites pain patients to seek Baton Rouge chiropractic care sooner than later!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) doctor chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least likely physicians to feel confident managing musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers confidently offer non-drug management and/or co-management with other healthcare personnel for the pain relief and pain control for Baton Rouge back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers ponders why chiropractors are not more immediately thought of in the process for Baton Rouge pain relief, particularly Baton Rouge back pain relief. Chiropractic services intergrate spinal manipulation (one of the highest recommended forms of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What stops some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also notes that patients believe their medical doctor understands nutrition. (4) And that’s ok if healthcare professionals collaborated along their lines of expertise, acknowledging that each has a role in the care of the pain patient and has the best welfare of the patient at heart. Chiropractors have expertise in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Knowing that a healthcare provider’s profession influences his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for Baton Rouge back pain patient care are established to try to use the expertise maximally. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient gets a consistent therapy message with current treatment guidelines. Activity messages do differ by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more in line with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers collaborates with other local Baton Rouge healthcare providers for patient care, appreciating their expertise and contribution to Baton Rouge back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day more pleasant.

CONTACT Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers

Schedule a Baton Rouge chiropractic appointment with Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your Baton Rouge chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow Baton Rouge healthcare providers and to give you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.