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Largo Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors

Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report drew the attention of Hollstrom & Associates Inc as it explains the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Largo chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Largo.

PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION

Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They face spine issues like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically gives the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are today. Chiropractors remain most commonly recognized for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it, too. A recent study of the clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation tried to discover more about this since spinal manipulation was a suggested first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They served anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers take care of 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought. Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors offering spinal manipulation is growing. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education that set up federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”

SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS

Chiropractic schools strive to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school found that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be taught via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders considered preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a successful clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is key. Hollstrom & Associates Inc welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic used in this Largo chiropractic clinic.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran. 

Make your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc who delivers spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!

Hollstrom & Associates Inc uses spinal manipulation on a daily basis as a representative of the chiropractic profession which is recognized as being the profession of spinal manipulation practitioners.
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