Largo Back Pain Option: Control It
Control not cure. That’s a difficult concept to accept when you are hurting. On the other hand, for many back pain and neck pain patients, any relief is welcome. Hollstrom & Associates Inc treats many Largo back pain and Largo neck pain patients who deal with chronic pain. Fortunately, spine pain patients who opt for chiropractic care with realistic goals often find relief.
CURE vs MANAGEMENT
When patients go to doctors, they usually prefer a “fix”. They want to be “cured” from their illness be it a cold or a headache or an infection even their back pain or neck pain. Researchers explained that medicine and healthcare primarily follow the “curative” model of care. For some conditions, management or control of the condition becomes the goal of care. Back and neck pain patients who come to the realization that their condition is theirs for life and that there is help for containing that pain via on-going chiropractic care become appreciative patients. Hollstrom & Associates Inc sees them all the time. The healthcare “curative” model may not change any time soon, but the patients’ healthcare services do. Recently, researchers studied back pain patients seeking care from chiropractors. Of 1614 chronic back and neck pain patients, fewer than 1/3rd of them had a goal of a permanent resolution to their pain. These patients had pain for a shorter time and sought a medical cure. The rest of the patients looked for on-going care to prevent the pain from returning, prevent it from getting worse, and attain temporary relief of their pain. These patients had less pain intensity for a longer time. (1) Patients’ hopes impact their pain relief.
HOPES OF BACK PAIN PATIENTS
It’s no secret that low back pain is an expensive healthcare challenge considering finances as well as quality of life. Back pain sufferers who have a high expectation of improvement have a 58% higher chance of reporting improvement at the fourth visit to the chiropractor. Your Largo chiropractor knows the significance of our back pain patients’ hopes and expectations. These hopes predict short-term outcomes more effectively than the intensity of the pain, self-rated health status or psychological status. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc encourages expectations that will improve patients’ quality of life.
50% RELIEF
50% relief is a quality of life improvement! The 50% Rule with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management relays realistic expectations to spine pain sufferers from the beginning. Many Largo back pain patients who come to Hollstrom & Associates Inc and have struggled with their pain for some time already are thrilled with the prospect of 10% or 20% or 50% or more. They just want some trace of their pre-pain life back even if it is walking to the mailbox or going to the grocery store. Cox® Technic aims for 50% relief of pain within 30 days of care with patient cooperation on visits and at-home suggestions of exercise and/or nutrition. The 50% Rule also assures both the back pain sufferer and the physician that the “next thing” to do if relief is not attained will be managed. Our patients can rely on Hollstrom & Associates Inc to take care of them.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Scott Spengel on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about helping a patient with Cox® Technic for relief of her back pain with a reasonable cost on a reasonable timeframe to meet her expectations of pain reduction.
Schedule a Largo chiropractic visit soon for some control of your back pain and improved quality of life whether it’s 10% or 25% or 50% or more. It is nice to have some control of the pain that has controlled you for too long.
