Carrolltown Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report piqued the attention of Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation as it explains the current state of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Carrolltown chiropractor strives to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Carrolltown.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They face spine issues like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What’s the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors are still most commonly recognized for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They served anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers take care of 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are used. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education that established federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools aim to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A new survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be educated via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a beneficial idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to establish a future chiropractor’s foundation for a successful clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Carrolltown chiropractic clinic.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped relieve low back pain for this military veteran.
Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
