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Largo Chiropractic and Back Pain Relief Expectations via Surgical or Conservative Care

What expectations do you have of your Largo chiropractic care of back pain? That is a key question. Research reports that that questions of expectations has a role in back pain treatment outcome be the treatment surgical or conservative. Hollstrom & Associates Inc aspires to listen to you and your expectations of our Largo back pain treatment and present the outcomes of our treatment documented in practice and in research.

INFLUENTIAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BACK SURGERY OUTCOMES

A new research project examined patient and surgeon expectations of back surgery. Patients expected full relief and improvement of their back pain after lumbar spine surgery. Surgeons expected improvement that ranged from a little to a lot dependant on the patient and his/her specific issues. Whose expectations were met? The surgeons’ expectations. Two years after the back surgery, the outcomes reported by patients met the surgeon’s expectations. The researchers stressed that effective communication about expectations may well advance better outcomes. (1) That is why Hollstrom & Associates Inc spends time with each Largo back pain patient early on in care, ensuring that the source of pain and its treatment plan are well-explained. If not, ask us!

AN ACCEPTABLE SYMPTOM STATE

If original patient expectations aren’t  met with back surgery, what is an “acceptable symptom state” for that back pain patient? What can he/she live with? For patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (with or without active discopathy), 54% reported having an acceptable symptom state at 1 month of care. Specifically, patient-reported acceptable symptoms included: 47.5 for lumbar pain, 30.5 for radicular pain, 39.3 for disability, 10.0 for anxiety, and 6.7 for depression. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc realizes no pain is the preferred state and is ready to discuss with our Largo chiropractic patients their options and possible outcomes.

DECIDING ON TREATMENT OPTIONS

Deciding whether to have back surgery is a big decision. Evidence-based medicine views the patient as being the center of care. What is the patient perspective of this care? How is the patient perspective taken into consideration in treatment planning and choosing from available options? A new paper indicated that the patient’s social, psychological, and other non-clinical characteristics must be considered in planning care. (3) One factor in the back-surgery decision that reportedly influences the decision and the outcome expectation is opioid use. Lower dose and shorter-time-taking opioid use patients expected more complete improvement compared with non-users. They also had higher expectations of positive outcome than higher-dose opioid patients. (4) For a lot of patients, the prospect of work is goal of back pain treatment which is encouraging according to this new report on how back pain patient recovery expectations sway clinical outcomes. A review of 60 studies reported that a patient’s recovery expectations are probably strongly associated with future work participation. (5) Hollstrom & Associates Inc employs effective, nonsurgical treatment of back pain to meet patient expectations once the research on outcomes for other back pain sufferers is presented and understood. Largo chiropractic care keeps the back pain patient at its center.

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Check out this PODCAST with Dr. Anthony Galante on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he described how Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and chiropractic treatment assisted in the management of back pain for a patient who was adamant about not wanting back surgery.

Set your next Largo chiropractic visit soon. Hollstrom & Associates Inc invites you to ponder and answer the question of your expectations for our treatment so that we can both be happy with the outcome!

 
Hollstrom & Associates Inc strives to meet realistic patient expectations when it comes to conservative back pain relief. 
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