Carrolltown Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I do not want this pain to get worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients have a tendency to have different goals for their pain. The goal of healthcare policy is mostly curative. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation knows otherwise. We all want relief and some semblance of control over how and when back pain and neck pain develop and ease. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and neck pain and acknowledges that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have had a few bouts with either condition realize this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain episodes as fast as possible. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is the Carrolltown chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is home of the Carrolltown back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain sufferers well. A recent study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wished for the pain to disappear permanently and were more likely to have experienced pain for a briefer period of time and have a stronger belief in medical cure; they wanted a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients wanted to prevent their pain from coming back and were more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients wished to keep their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients sought temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients were more likely to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person depending on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers really should recognize. (1) Such patient expectations are documented to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study documented that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the 4th appointment. (2) Surely, having healthcare providers of various professions working together can boost low back pain patients’ odds of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care depends on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be considered. And when it comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is essential. (4) At Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation the Carrolltown back pain patient is at the center of everything we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares his story of being a back pain patient desiring pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eased his pain.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic visit with your Carrolltown back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
