Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers Offers Realistic Back Pain Relief Expectations
Let’s be honest. You want 100% relief of your Baton Rouge back pain and have it never return. Heck, you didn’t want it to occur in the first place! Well, Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers desires that for you, also. But reality interferes. The research comes out. Realistic expectations are defined. Standard treatment outcomes guide you and Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers as we move together toward healing and improved quality of life with back pain.
MEDICAL CLINICAL EXPECTATION
Medicine today says 30% minimal clinical improvement as good enough to warrant the use of a treatment approach. (1) The “minimal clinically important difference” is an indicator of the value of treatment. In an extensive review of published reports, the relative percent was revealed as 32%. (2) “Good” outcome of medical primary care for sciatica and leg pain was just 30% reduction in disability. 55% of patients were improved at one year. (1) Another researcher group reported that a 20 point move on a 100 point scale is a good outcome. A change of 19% on an Oswestry pain scale and 2 points on a 10 points visual analogue scale is thought to be successful reduction in pain for a patient with continued postoperative spine pain. (3) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows Baton Rouge back pain patients desire more relief than that. Setting up realistic expectations from the beginning boosts the chances of a satisfactory outcome for our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients.
CHIROPRACTIC ROLE IN BACK PAIN RELIEF
Chiropractic is often classified as alternative medicine. Chiropractic strives to take care of the source of spine-related pain with spine treatment, exercise, nutrition, etc., whereas allopathic medicine focuses on the removal of the offending cause of pain by drug or invasive means. (4) One study comparing the two approaches showed that at 2 months of care, older adults with lumbar spine stenosis treated with manual therapy and exercise improved better than medical care and group exercise. (5) Another study of older adults with back pain stated 50% improvement in back pain and 43% in disability after 2 years of care. The honest truth: fewer than 20% of these patients had complete resolution of pain and disability, but they were better. (6) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers helps many Baton Rouge back pain and stenosis patients honestly establish realistic expectations for clinical improvement of their back pain conditions undergoing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
CLINICAL OUTCOMES WITH COX® TECHNIC
Cox® Technic has always sought at least 50% relief within 30 days before doing another treatment protocol or arranging appointments for more advanced imaging tests or referral for surgical consultation (always making sure that there is no sign of progressive neurological deficit or caudal equina syndrome/change in bowel or urinary function which would necessitate a more immediate action). (7) For years, 50% didn’t seem like enough. Today, it is amazing relief compared with the new medical and surgical expectation of 20% to 30% relief. One more recent study reports even more relief with Cox® Technic: Spinal stenosis patients improved in pain by 76% and disability by 73%. (8) How might such improvement come? Horizontal traction was reported to be much more effective in increasing disc height of lower lumbar discs. (9) Cox® Technic distraction manipulation was found to increase the area by 28%. (10) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows many Baton Rouge back pain patients whose 20% relief of pain thrilled them as it allowed them to walk in the park or go to the grocery store or play with the grandkids.
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Wanda Lopez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose patient was elated that she could take a walk in Central Park without pain.
CONTACT Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers
Schedule your next chiropractic appointment at Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers today. We’ll be honest. We will discuss treatment outcome expectations with you. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is on your side and committed to helping you get the Baton Rouge back pain relief you want.
