Largo Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report drew the attention of Hollstrom & Associates Inc as it explains the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Largo chiropractor endeavors to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Largo.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They encounter spine issues like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically gives the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are now. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare sees it, too. A new study of the clinicians who use spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has that many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are desired. Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who provide spinal manipulation grew from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is falling 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 told 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 aim to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A new survey of faculty at one chiropractic school found that 81% of them were trained 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 deemed preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is important to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. 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 illustrates 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 performs spinal manipulation every day, keeps track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
