When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation
often goes like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Carrolltown attending a
meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Really? I have this pain down my leg…”
Your Carrolltown chiropractor loves
this and could talk back pain and neck pain forever!
Carrolltown chiropractic patients at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation certainly know
this. Your Carrolltown chiropractor enjoys
the status as the Carrolltown back pain specialist.
Being a primary spine practitioner is so exciting and engaging!
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty
clinic for spine pain patients, and is not shy
in the least about telling everyone in
Carrolltown.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant
for Gallup partnered with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for
a study that found that 78% of American adults would prefer
to use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with
pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults thought
physical therapy and chiropractic care as very effective and safe
when compared to pain medications. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and
in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about
Chiropractors,” he stressed how bad the opioid crisis is in
the US and that evidence-based non-drug approaches like
spinal manipulation are rational
options. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers wrote
that chiropractic is seen by society as a profession of health
care providers who are experts in spine care as their
education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing involve spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed
that chiropractic care was effective in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% thought
chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation understands
this. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation sees that Carrolltown back pain
and neck pain patients find relieving help with the
Carrolltown chiropractic care and then count on
Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation to point them in other healthy approaches to
control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and
spine to avert future unpleasant health and/or spinal
pain issues.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially trained to care for patients with
spinal disease, primary spine practitioners play many responsibilities:
diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), present
evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise,
education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept
the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and organize
all aspects of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when
needed). (4) It’s an extensive job with lots
of responsibility! It’s truly the job
your Carrolltown chiropractor enjoys most! What do
Carrolltown back pain sufferers wants? Consumers want
access to non-drug therapies provided by spine care
experts like chiropractors first. This helps
in a few ways. One is improving the value of
spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care
shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is
potentially reining in the opioid epidemic. The American
College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically state
that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options
like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is
here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Carrolltown SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST
about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a
patient who does not want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Carrolltown chiropractic
appointment with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation to investigate
the benefit of having the Carrolltown back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in most
cases.