Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a role in managing and relieving pain that should not be ignored. Primary care physicians don’t feel very confident treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the leading prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who treats 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation sees many pain patients and eases a great deal of Carrolltown back pain often without opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

These statistics are founded on a huge study of 478,981 recently diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who start taking opiates for pain relief. (2)

• 40.4% of pain patients obtained opioid prescriptions for the first time within a year of pain while only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
• Family practice doctors are the most usual first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
• Patients who look for care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most certainly to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
• Patients diagnosed first by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have a higher risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation welcomes pain patients to seek Carrolltown chiropractic care first!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) doctor chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least likely physicians to feel confident managing musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation confidently use non-drug management and/or co-management with other healthcare personnel for the pain relief and pain control for Carrolltown back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation speculates why chiropractors aren’t more readily thought of in the process for Carrolltown pain relief, particularly Carrolltown back pain relief. Chiropractic services incorporate spinal manipulation (one of the highest recommended forms of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What stops some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also shares that patients believe their medical doctor knows about nutrition. (4) And that’s fine if healthcare professionals collaborated along their lines of expertise, recognizing that each has a role in the care of the pain patient and has the best interest of the patient at heart. Chiropractors are well skilled in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Recognizing that a healthcare provider’s profession influences his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for Carrolltown back pain patient care are established to try to apply the expertise fully. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient gets a consistent therapy message with up-to-date treatment guidelines. Activity messages do vary by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more consistent with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation collaborates with other local Carrolltown healthcare providers for patient care, appreciating their expertise and contribution to Carrolltown back pain patients’ return to activities that they like to do.

CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your Carrolltown chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow Carrolltown healthcare providers and to share with you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.