St Peters Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation often sounds like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from St Peters attending a meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My brother has the worst back pain and pain down the leg!”
Your St Peters chiropractor enjoys this and could talk back pain and neck pain forever! St Peters chiropractic patients at Old Mill Chiropractic certainly know this. Your St Peters chiropractor enjoys the reputation as the St Peters back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so stimulating and inviting! Old Mill Chiropractic understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and is not reluctant at all about letting everyone know in St Peters.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You’ve heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant for Gallup teamed up with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for a study that revealed that 78% of American adults would prefer to use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults thought physical therapy and chiropractic care as very effective and safe when compared to pain meds. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about Chiropractors,” he emphasized how bad the opioid crisis is in the US and that evidence-based non-drug approaches like spinal manipulation are reasonable options. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers wrote that chiropractic is viewed by society as a profession of health care providers who are specialists in spine care as their education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing revolve around spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed that chiropractic care was successful in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% said chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic gets this. Old Mill Chiropractic grasps that St Peters back pain and neck pain patients find relief with the St Peters chiropractic care and then count on Old Mill Chiropractic to lead them in other healthy approaches to control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and spine to prevent future adverse health and/or spinal pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially trained to care for patients with spinal disease, primary spine practitioners play many tasks: diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), present evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise, education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and organize all aspects of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It is a big job with plenty of responsibility! It is absolutely the role your St Peters chiropractor embraces! What do St Peters back pain sufferers wants? Consumers desire access to non-drug therapies delivered by spine care experts like chiropractors initially. This benefits in a few ways. One is increasing the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping deal with the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is possibly curbing the opioid epidemic. The American College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically state that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Old Mill Chiropractic is here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR St Peters SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a patient who does not want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic to discover the benefit of having the St Peters back pain specialist taking care of your back pain and spine pain without medications in many cases.
