Largo Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
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 Largo attending a meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My neck is killing me!”
Your Largo chiropractor loves this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever! Largo chiropractic patients at Hollstrom & Associates Inc certainly know this. Your Largo chiropractor welcomes the reputation as the Largo back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so exciting and engaging! Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and isn’t bashful at all about letting everyone know in Largo.
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 considered physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe when compared to pain meds. 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 methods like spinal manipulation are rational alternatives. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers concluded that chiropractic is seen by society as a profession of health care providers who are specialists 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 successfully relieved neck and back pain. 52.6% believed chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Hollstrom & Associates Inc understands this. Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows that Largo back pain and neck pain patients find relief with the Largo chiropractic care and then rely on Hollstrom & Associates Inc to guide them in other healthy approaches to control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and spine to prevent future unpleasant health and/or spinal pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially trained to care for patients with spinal disease, primary spine practitioners take on many tasks: diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), provide 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 facets of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It’s an extensive job with plenty of responsibility! It’s absolutely the job your Largo chiropractor embraces! What do Largo back pain sufferers wants? Consumers want access to non-drug therapies supplied by spine care experts like chiropractors first. Such access helps in a few ways. One is increasing the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping deal with the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is lessening the cost of care. (6) Four is possibly reining in the opioid epidemic. The American College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically say that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Hollstrom & Associates Inc is here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Largo SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a patient who doesn’t want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc to look into the benefit of having the Largo back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in most cases.
