“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, but you may want
to!”
Researchers are documenting the
support for chiropractic care in the short and long
term also known as maintenance care. Advantages include
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, continued function, and greater
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Chiropractic Solutions leaves it up to our
San Jose chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies well.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION
RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of
chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients evaluated
how quickly they got better with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they experienced. These
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, and function recovered
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was considered in the analysis,
those who experienced the worst pain went
for more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients impacted the outcome
toward more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Chiropractic Solutions is so glad to read about these published studies to present to our
San Jose back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. San Jose back pain has all
sorts of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A collection of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care uncovered a relatively small difference in
outcome which makes sense that inserting
ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the maintenance care
recommendations reported fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who observed
recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost,
low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought stood in
the way of their following recommended maintenance
care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating cervical
spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related
retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal
neighbors) maintained the patient’s asymptomatic state, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced a steady decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who underwent
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain experienced
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought
to positively impact pain and manage symptoms while
exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to
self-handle their condition. (6) Chiropractic Solutions carefully designs
a treatment plan for each individual patient for optimal
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
explains the effectiveness of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Schedule your next San Jose chiropractic
appointment with Chiropractic Solutions. Our back pain and neck pain patients don’t have to see us, but many choose to because they feel
good and want to stay that way.