Benefits of Continued Augusta Chiropractic Care for Back Pain
“Doc, must I see you for a long time?”
“Not necessarily, but you might well want to!”
Researchers are documenting the support for chiropractic care in the short and long term also known as maintenance care. Advantages consist of pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained pain relief, continued function, and enhanced confidence in taking part in activities of daily living. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic leaves it up to our Augusta 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 analyzed how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much functional improvement they felt. These patients were found to suffer with mild pain for the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function improved gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of chiropractic visits was blended into the analysis, those who had the worst pain went for more visits. Only when chronic low back pain patients made visits more than once a week was the impact beneficial and 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. Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic is so glad to see these types of studies published to share with our Augusta back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Augusta back pain has all types of influences: social, biological, psychological as well. A collection of back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus multidisciplinary care uncovered a relatively small difference in outcome which makes sense that inserting ancillary care boosts the outcomes. (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 prevented them from following recommended maintenance care. (4) A patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating 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 produced a gradual decrease in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who got 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 considered to positively impact pain and manage symptoms while exercise boosted self-efficacy and confidence to be able to keep active and mobile and in being able to self-handle their condition. (6) Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic 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.
Schedule your next Augusta chiropractic appointment with Lombardy Chiropractic Clinic. Our back pain and neck pain patients do not have to see us, but many do because they feel good and want to keep feeling good.
