Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Asks Back Pain Patients About Pain Relief Expectations
What do Carrolltown back pain sufferers desire when they seek Carrolltown back pain care? Back pain relief. How much Carrolltown back pain relief do they expect? 100%? 50%? That percentage differs with the back pain patient’s experience and preceding care. First time back pain sufferers many times expect 100%. A veteran back pain sufferer who has experienced a couple back surgeries, some spinal injections, many doctors and therapists may well be delighted with 50% or even 30%. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation welcomes all these Carrolltown back pain patients and shares what the spinal research literature reports as realistic outcomes of Carrolltown back pain treatment and specifically Carrolltown chiropractic outcomes of care following the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
YOUR EXPECTATION OF Carrolltown BACK PAIN RELIEF
How much improvement do you expect from your back pain treatment? 30% is held to be “clinically relevant.” (1) Is that enough for you? Medical literature characterizes the “minimal clinically important difference” of treatment to be the slightest change in status a patient feels is meaningful to him or her. That difference is described as 30% improvement in self-reported pain or function as a result of a study of 743 patients. (2) In another study of 609 back-related leg pain and sciatica patients, good outcome is defined as 30% reduction in disability. 55% reported such improvement at 12 months of care. (3) The expectation of 5443 patients who underwent spine surgery for low back degenerative disc disease for pain and disability reduction was experienced by 64% at 12 months post-surgery. However, satisfaction decreases as disability increases. (4) Realistic expectations of back pain treatment are communicated to Carrolltown chiropractic patients at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation when the treatment plan is established.
CHIROPRACTIC COX® TECHNIC OUTCOMES FOR BACK PAIN
In following the protocols of the chiropractic technique, Cox® Technic, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation and fellow chiropractors who use it seek 50% relief of pain in 30 days…and we chiropractors don’t feel that is too lofty a goal! Cox® Technic physicians like yours at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation see higher percentages of improvement for many Carrolltown back pain patients. With 50% relief, which for many patients results in just a couple visits to a couple weeks, Carrolltown chiropractic treatment continues without a surgical consult or advanced imaging (except if progressive neurological deficits appear or cauda equina is present). 50% relief is often a timely relief for Carrolltown back pain patients seeking a return to a quality of life that is acceptable. This might include walking the dog or going to the mailbox. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation strives to help patients attain realistic and maintainable outcomes of care.
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation anticipates meeting patient expectations of Carrolltown back pain treatment (be they 20% or 30% or 50% or more!) as well as forming realistic expectations of back pain relief for each individual spine.
