Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic
Back pain care guidelines emphasize non-surgical care treatments like spinal manipulation. So who delivers non-surgical care? A new study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your Carrolltown chiropractor at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation accept that role. Your Carrolltown chiropractor helps Carrolltown back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and enhance their quality of life.
The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment for recent onset back and/or leg pain advocates patient education (incorporating a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!
24% of US adults seek out chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults sought chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients seek chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines drawn up by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical approaches like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are frustrated! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain ended with a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these low back pain and leg pain patients go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? They received opioid prescriptions more often. (4) Your Carrolltown chiropractor proposes a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.
But what prompts a visit to a chiropractor like your Carrolltown chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds correct for Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation, too. Our Carrolltown chiropractic patients see the back pain specialists at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation as back and neck pain relief specialists!) Additionally, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more likely to visit a chiropractor in the last year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% thought the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your Carrolltown chiropractor is ready to share care! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation is ready to collaborate with your primary care physician whenever possible.
Schedule your Carrolltown chiropractic visit today. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation will reach out to your primary care physician. We are all with you and desire the same thing: non-surgical pain relief as called for by the most recent back pain care guidelines and improved quality of life for you, our shared Carrolltown back pain patient or neck pain patient.
