Chiropractic’s goal is to provide
the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s
also the goal of your Carrolltown chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It is a partnership among the Carrolltown
back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie
Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE
OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the
best! A new survey found that chiropractors like
yours at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation relish their profession
most as they are capable to reduce pain
as well as build strength, flexibility, and power with
their patients via an inclusive
treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were
marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis
for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality
of life.” (1) Your Carrolltown chiropractor agrees! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain
issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned
how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician
reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7
conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers state
certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific
set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who reported
at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which resulted
in 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the
Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects
how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed
by provider type and whether the provider availability increases
or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated
with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In Carrolltown, back
pain sufferers have a partner at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation who can help
them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is realizing
that the one who is truly at the center of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person dealing with
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic
issue, the low back pain sufferer self-manages most of
the time anyway and needs suggestions about
how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take support from clinicians along the
lines of education about the condition and the collaboration
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Carrolltown back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
need to communicate how each sees back
pain management to most advantageously help the patient!
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Keith Bartley on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management gently and successfully
relieves back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists
the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop
another episode of back pain.
Make your next Carrolltown
chiropractic appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation soon. In
conjunction with delivering relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation strives to offer
our Carrolltown spine pain patients a sense of control over their pain.