Benefits of Continued San Jose Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want to!”
Researchers are stating support for chiropractic care in the short and long term also known as maintenance care. Advantages consist of pain relief and return of function in the short term and continued pain relief, sustained function, and higher confidence in doing activities of daily living. Chiropractic Solutions leaves it up to our San Jose chiropractic clients who know themselves and their bodies best.
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 felt. These patients were found to suffer 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 blended into the analysis, those with the worst pain went for more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits more than one time a week was the impact beneficial and made a difference in regards to greater improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist 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 types of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A collection of back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in outcome which seems logical since adding ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (2) Same with continued chiropractic care. Patients who followed 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 prevented them from following recommended maintenance care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once a month maintenance care including cervical spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal neighbors) kept the patient asymptomatic, kept the spine functioning as best as possible, and brought about a gradual decrease in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who got 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 considered to improve pain and control symptoms while exercise boosted 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.
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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.
Make 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 keep feeling good.
