Chiropractic Solutions Treats the Patient Not the MRI
Why do patients have 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. Chiropractic Solutions is here as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain patients, San Jose chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients report all sorts of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal pain. (The adage that something is a “pain in the butt” is a literal portrayal of some back pain patients’ pain! It is a more radicular issue than degenerative change of facet joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common reason for back surgery in the US for adults. A study of stenosis patients who have endured at least 3 years of pain revealed that manual therapy and individualized exercise excelled in helping the most patients get greater than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management aims for at least 50% relief in 30 days with many patients realizing 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% sooner than that! Chiropractic Solutions knows San Jose 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 comes from a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of this paper suggested doing decompression surgery without or with fusion sooner 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 leading cause of disability in the world ahead of 290 other conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is said to be just 2.9% of the cost of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added expense 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 received 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 – aids chronic back pain patients recover in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Chiropractic Solutions welcomes such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! We want you to feel better!
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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 San Jose chiropractic care appointment with Chiropractic Solutions today. Physical, mental and emotional pain relief may be relieved and back surgery dodged with gentle, safe chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions where patient care is based on the patient not the MRI!
