Hollstrom & Associates Inc Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively

They say numbers don’t lie. There are lots of numbers available in the world of back pain and neck pain statistics regarding costs and outcomes. Hollstrom & Associates Inc shares a few of the more recent ones that are quite interesting and supportive of our Largo chiropractic method integrating the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS

Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-published.  Are they followed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 had persistent low back pain. These patients weren’t surgical candidates and had gone through conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% utilized physical therapy, 50% experienced chiropractic, 26% received steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. In contradiction to low back pain treatment guidelines, most patients were prescribed opioids while several non-drug treatments were utilized by only a few. (1) Another report stated that 775,893 general practitioner visits resulted in 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-drug treatment option for commonly referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were very substantial. (1) Largo back pain treatment costs don’t vary that much.

COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE

A review of Humana healthcare claims resulted in these findings: the pre-operative costs of conservative treatment options for cervical spine radiculopathy were just 37.7% of the total non-operative costs for this condition. Injection costs were the highest, costing $988 on average per patient. Other costs were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), then chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy were for diagnostic modalities.  (3) Largo neck and back pain patients have an experienced chiropractic option in their chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc.

INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE

Recent data showed a 106% increase in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that resulted in referral to another physician partly because of ineffective outpatient conservative treatment. The study that presented this finding concluded with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would be referred to as their first subspeciality, a surgeon. Further, patients who are less likely to require surgery would see a non-surgical spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Largo chiropractor at Hollstrom & Associates Inc is ready to be the Largo non-surgical spine specialist this article suggests for our Largo low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!

CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT

Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% reported ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more reduction in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seek at least 50% reduction of pain non-surgically in a month. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly more with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them reported greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had more than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was maintained: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Largo chiropractor delivers just such relief and knows when to refer if necessary.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration for relieving post-surgical continued back pain.

Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment today. Do not let numbers scare you. Let them lead you down the path to pain relief. See you soon!