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Hollstrom & Associates Inc Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain

Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That is also the goal of your Largo chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving 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 recent survey reported that chiropractors like yours at Hollstrom & Associates Inc enjoy their profession most as they are capable to decrease pain and increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside their patients via a comprehensive treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were reported as “being trained to diagnose”the basis for quality care and wanted clinical outcomes! -  and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your Largo chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is a highlight of daily practice.

EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP

Researchers wondered how a community’s healthcare workforce impacted 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 addition of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects how much is spent on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. 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 as well as at-home self-care.

EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE

Medicine is realizing that the one who is really at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person experiencing pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of the time anyway and wants suggestions about how best to do that: when to request more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to manage and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take guidance from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the collaboration 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 sees 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 effectively alleviates back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.

Schedule your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc today. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Hollstrom & Associates Inc strives to offer our Largo spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation. 

 
Hollstrom & Associates Inc encourages back pain sufferers to manage their back pain so it does not mange them. 
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