Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That is
also the goal of your San Jose chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It’s a partnership involving the San Jose
back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie
Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE
OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the
best! A recent survey reported that chiropractors like
yours at Chiropractic Solutions relish their profession
most because they are capable to decrease pain
and increase strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients via a comprehensive
treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were
reported as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis
for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality
of life.” (1) Your San Jose chiropractor concurs! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain
issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered
how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician
decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 elder
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7
conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers state
certain limitations in their study as they pulled a certain
set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported
at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which resulted
in 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the
Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects
how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered
by provider type and whether the provider availability increases
or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated
with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In San Jose, back
pain sufferers get a partner at Chiropractic Solutions who can guide them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is realizing
that the one who is truly at the core of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person dealing with
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic
issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of
the time anyway and desires suggestions about
how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take encouragement from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the collaboration
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) San Jose back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Chiropractic Solutions
need to communicate how each sees back
pain management to best reduce the
pain!
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Keith Bartley on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management gently and successfully
alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists
the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.
Schedule your next San Jose
chiropractic appointment with Chiropractic Solutions today. In
conjunction with delivering relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Chiropractic Solutions attempts to offer
our San Jose spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.