Benefits of Continued Largo Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“No, but you may want to!”
Researchers are documenting the support for chiropractic care in the shorter and longer term also known as maintenance care. Benefits include pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained pain relief, continued function, and boosted confidence in doing activities of daily living. Hollstrom & Associates Inc leaves it up to our Largo chiropractic clients who know themselves and their bodies well.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients examined how quickly they got better with chiropractic care and how much functional improvement they felt. The involved patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for the most part. Back and neck pain decreased, and function recovered gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis, those who stated they had the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more than once a week for chronic low back pain patients impacted the outcome toward greater improvement. (1) Studies like this can help patients with their expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage. Hollstrom & Associates Inc is so glad to read about these published studies to share with our Largo back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Largo back pain has all types of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A study of back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in outcome which makes sense that inserting ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the maintenance care recommendations reported fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited days. (3) Back pain patients who observed recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost, low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought stood in the way of their following recommended maintenance care. (4) One patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care including cervical spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and associated retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal neighbors) kept the patient asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as possible, and brought about a gradual decrease in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain experienced greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was thought to positively impact pain and control symptoms while exercise bolstered self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to self-handle their condition. (6) Hollstrom & Associates Inc carefully creates a treatment plan for each unique patient for optimal outcomes for each.
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Listen to the PODCAST with Dr. Robert Borzone on the Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the benefit of continued chiropractic care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with a disc herniation.
Make your next Largo chiropractic appointment with Hollstrom & Associates Inc. Our back pain and neck pain patients don’t have to see us, but many do because they feel good and want to keep feeling good.
