Carrolltown Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines
Back pain appears. Back pain hangs around 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 go away. The hope of a quick relieving pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are out there. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Carrolltown 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 annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were generally prescribed. They questioned how spinal manipulation affected the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The risk of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly less for those undergoing chiropractic spinal manipulation. The odds did rise a bit as the back pain stayed: 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 didn’t have anything to do with the odds. The study concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly decreased the odds of a prescription for and influenced the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who started with the chiropractic manipulation path were more prone to receive published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Carrolltown back pain sufferers deliberating where to go for their back pain: Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation!
OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers with acute onset, preliminary episode of back pain often go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in the ED was reported 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 increased the long-term use of opioids and the cost of care notwithstanding the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes linked to opioid use. (2) Carrolltown back pain sufferers who visit Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation discover 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 showed some eye-opening facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people resulted in 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 that 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 varied from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.
Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Back pain - be it new or old, sudden or lingering – may well find relief in recommended spinal manipulation care at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation.
