Old Mill Chiropractic Offers Realistic Back Pain Relief Expectations

Let’s be honest. You want 100% relief of your St Peters back pain and have it never return. Heck, you didn’t want it to bother you in the first place! Well, Old Mill Chiropractic desires that for you, too. But reality intervenes. The research gets published. Realistic expectations are explained. Standard treatment outcomes guide you and Old Mill Chiropractic as we travel together toward healing and improved quality of life with back pain.

MEDICAL CLINICAL EXPECTATION

Medicine today reports 30% minimal clinical improvement as good enough to merit the use of a treatment approach. (1) The “minimal clinically important difference” is a marker of the helpfulness of treatment. In a large review of studies, the relative percent was revealed as 32%. (2) “Good” outcome of medical primary care for sciatica and leg pain was just 30% reduction in disability. 55% of patients were improved at one year. (1) Another set of researchers reported that a 20 point move on a 100 point scale is a good outcome.  A change of 19% on an Oswestry pain scale and 2 points on a 10 points visual analogue scale is thought to be successful reduction in pain for a patient with continued postoperative spine pain. (3) Old Mill Chiropractic knows St Peters back pain patients desire more relief than that. Establishing realistic expectations from the beginning improves the odds of a satisfactory outcome for our St Peters chiropractic patients.

CHIROPRACTIC ROLE IN BACK PAIN RELIEF

Chiropractic is often classified as alternative medicine. Chiropractic strives to take care of the source of spine-related pain with spine treatment, exercise, nutrition, etc., whereas allopathic medicine seeks to remove the offending agent of pain by drug or invasive methods. (4) One study comparing the two approaches demonstrated that at 2 months of care, older adults with lumbar spine stenosis treated with manual therapy and exercise fared better than medical care and group exercise. (5) Another study of older adults with back pain stated 50% improvement in back pain and 43% in disability after 2 years of care. The honest truth: fewer than 20% of these patients had complete resolution of pain and disability, but they were better. (6) Old Mill Chiropractic assists many St Peters back pain and stenosis patients honestly establish realistic expectations for clinical improvement of their back pain conditions using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

CLINICAL OUTCOMES WITH COX® TECHNIC

Cox® Technic has always sought at least 50% relief within 30 days before doing another treatment protocol or arranging appointments for more advanced imaging tests or referral for surgical consultation (as long as there is no sign of progressive neurological deficit or caudal equina syndrome/change in bowel or urinary function which would call for a more immediate action). (7) For years, 50% did not seem like enough. Today, it’s amazing relief compared with the new medical and surgical expectation of 20% to 30% relief. One more recent study documents even more relief with Cox® Technic: Spinal stenosis patients improved in pain by 76% and disability by 73%. (8) How might such improvement come? Horizontal traction was reported to be much more effective in increasing disc height of lower lumbar discs. (9) Cox® Technic distraction manipulation was found to increase the area by 28%. (10) Old Mill Chiropractic has cared for many St Peters back pain patients whose 20% relief of pain thrilled them as it allowed them to walk in the park or go to the grocery store or play with the grandkids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Wanda Lopez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose patient was overjoyed just being able to take a walk in Central Park without pain.

CONTACT Old Mill Chiropractic

Schedule your next chiropractic appointment at Old Mill Chiropractic today. We will be honest. We’ll discuss treatment outcome expectations with you. Old Mill Chiropractic is on your side and committed to helping you realize the St Peters back pain relief you want.