Hollstrom & Associates Inc Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain and not avoid life. That is also the goal of your Largo chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Largo 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 Hollstrom & Associates Inc take pleasure in their profession most because they are able to decrease pain as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via an inclusive treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were noted as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Largo chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a big 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 added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers admit 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 episode of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability influences how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly associated with higher spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In Largo, back pain sufferers have a partner at Hollstrom & Associates Inc who can help them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is realizing that the one who is truly at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person suffering with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and desires suggestions about how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take encouragement from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Largo back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc need to work on how each views back pain management to best reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and successfully alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care routine to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Schedule your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc soon. In conjunction with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Hollstrom & Associates Inc attempts to offer our Largo spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation.
