Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively

Have you heard it said that numbers don’t lie? With all the numbers out there about back and neck pain costs and outcomes, we can put that to the test. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation presents a few of the more recent ones that are really interesting and reassuring of our Carrolltown chiropractic approach integrating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS

Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-established.  Are they observed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 experienced persistent low back pain. These patients were not surgical candidates and had experienced conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% underwent physical therapy, 50% underwent chiropractic, 26% got steroid injections and 66% took prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. Contrary to low back pain treatment guidelines, most patients were given opioids while several non-drug treatments were used by only a few. (1) Another report stated that 775,893 general practitioner visits led to 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-pharmacological treatment choice for commonly referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were quite large. (1) Carrolltown back pain treatment costs are not that different.

COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE

A review of Humana healthcare claims resulted in these findings: the pre-surgical costs of conservative treatment alternatives for cervical spine radiculopathy were just 37.7% of the total non-operative expenses for this condition. Injection costs were the highest, coming in at $988 on average per patient. Other expenses were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), and chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy went to diagnostic modalities.  (3) Carrolltown neck and back pain sufferers have an experienced chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation.

INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE

Recent data showed a 106% rise in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that resulted in referral to another physician partly because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that talked about this finding concluded with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would see a surgeon as their first subspecialty referral visit. Additionally, patients who are less likely to need surgery would see a non-surgical spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready to be the Carrolltown non-surgical spine specialist this article suggests for our Carrolltown low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!

CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT

Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% reported ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more decrease in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seek at minimum a 50% reduction of pain non-surgically in 30 days. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly better with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them scored greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had greater than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was continued: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Carrolltown chiropractor provides just such relief and knows when to refer if necessary.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration for relieving post-surgical continued back pain.

Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Do not let numbers concern you. Let them enlighten your path to pain relief. See you soon!