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San Jose Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines

Back pain comes. Back pain hangs around occasionally. Back pain goes away for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its path, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to leave. The hope of a quick fixing pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are available. 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 often the most aggravating. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were frequently prescribed. They asked 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 receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did go up a bit as the back pain stuck around: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also questioned whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications influenced this. Their sensitivity analysis did not have anything to do with the risk. The study concluded 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 started with the chiropractic manipulation path were more apt to receive published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for San Jose back pain sufferers deliberating 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 commonly go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in the ED was documented as not always adhering to clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. In 2016, researchers reported that prescribing opioids so early for uncomplicated acute low back pain built up the long-term use of opioids as well as the cost of care part from the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) San Jose back pain sufferers finding their way to Chiropractic Solutions find other non-drug care that is recommended for relief of back pain.

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 the recommendations were followed revealed some eye-opening 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 type 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 deliveres safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.

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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.

Make 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.

Chiropractic Solutions delivers recommended spinal manipulation which may help reduce the need for benzodiazepines. 
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