San Jose Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines
Back pain appears. Back pain lingers occasionally. Back pain leaves for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its trajectory, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to leave. The hope of a fast relieving pill is strong. The desire for relief is tenacious. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive approaches are out there. Chiropractic Solutions offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of San Jose back pain and neck pain that pleases!
RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE
Radicular low back pain – radiating-down-the-leg back pain – is many times the most annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were generally prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation influenced the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The odds of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly less for those undergoing chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did rise a bit as the back pain lingered: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also examined whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications influenced this. Their sensitivity analysis didn’t have anything to do with the risk. The study closed by saying that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly decreased the odds of a prescription for and affected the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who began with the chiropractic manipulation path were more likely to receive published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for San Jose back pain sufferers wondering where to go for their back pain: Chiropractic Solutions!
OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers with acute onset, initial episode of back pain often go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in the ED was documented as not always following clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. Researchers back in 2016 reported that prescribing opioids so early for uncomplicated acute low back pain built up the long-term use of opioids and the cost of care notwithstanding the fact that there are a variety of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) San Jose back pain sufferers who visit Chiropractic Solutions find other non-drug care that is recommended for back pain relief.
RECOMMENDED BACK PAIN TREATMENT OPTIONS
The American College of Physicians published recommendations for care of low back pain in 2009. (3) Spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain in adults. Chiropractors make up 97%-98% of the spinal manipulation providers. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether these recommendations were followed revealed some interesting facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people gave rise to 545 low back pain sufferers who visited a medical doctor in the past 12 months. They were asked what form of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed the recommended care. 96% said they were given a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor recommended drug and non-drug therapies. 76% - NSAIDs and acetaminophen. 79% - self-care treatments. 37% - massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation. 60% - physical therapy. Nearly 66% said prescriptions (benzodiazepine, opioids, gabapentin, Neurontin, cortisone injections) were recommended. Follow through on the recommendations by patients ranged from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Chiropractic Solutions provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment soon. Back pain - be it new or old, sudden or lingering – may well find relief in recommended spinal manipulation care at Chiropractic Solutions.
