Chiropractic Solutions Asks Back Pain Patients About Pain Relief Expectations
What do San Jose back pain sufferers desire when they seek San Jose back pain care? Back pain relief. How much San Jose back pain relief do they expect? 100%? 50%? That percentage varies with the back pain patient’s experience and preceding care. First time back pain sufferers many times expect 100%. A veteran back pain sufferer who has gone through a few back surgeries, several spinal injections, many doctors and therapists may well be thrilled with 50% or even 30%. Chiropractic Solutions welcomes all these San Jose back pain patients and shares what the spinal research literature reports as realistic outcomes of San Jose back pain treatment and specifically San Jose chiropractic outcomes of care following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
YOUR EXPECTATION OF San Jose BACK PAIN RELIEF
How much improvement do you expect from your back pain treatment? 30% is held to be “clinically relevant.” (1) Is that adequate for you? Medical literature characterizes the “minimal clinically important difference” of treatment to be the smallest change in outcome a patient sees as meaningful to him or her. That difference is defined as 30% improvement in self-reported pain or function as a result of a study of 743 patients. (2) In another study of 609 back-related leg pain and sciatica patients, good outcome is explained to be 30% reduction in disability. 55% reported such improvement at 12 months of care. (3) The expectation of 5443 patients who had spine surgery for low back degenerative disc disease for pain and disability reduction was met for 64% at 12 months post-surgery. However, satisfaction goes down as disability goes up. (4) Realistic expectations of back pain treatment are communicated to San Jose chiropractic patients at Chiropractic Solutions when the treatment plan is arranged.
CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES FOR BACK PAIN
In going by the protocols of the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic, Chiropractic Solutions and fellow chiropractors who offer it aim for 50% relief of pain in 30 days…and we chiropractors do not feel that is too lofty a goal! Cox® Technic physicians like yours at Chiropractic Solutions see higher percentages of improvement for many San Jose back pain patients. With 50% relief, which for many patients appears in just a few visits to a week or two, San Jose chiropractic treatment carries on without a surgical consult or advanced imaging (except if progressive neurological deficits occur or cauda equina is present). 50% relief is often a welcome relief for San Jose back pain patients seeking a return to a quality of life that is acceptable. This might incorporate taking the dog for a walk or going to the mailbox. Chiropractic Solutions strives to help patients achieve realistic and maintainable outcomes of care.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic appointment today. Chiropractic Solutions anticipates meeting patient expectations of San Jose back pain treatment (be they 20% or 30% or 50% or more!) while also setting realistic expectations of back pain relief for each patient’s spine.
