Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic
Guidelines for back pain care emphasize non-surgical care methods like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A recent study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your St Peters chiropractor at Old Mill Chiropractic relish that responsibility. Your St Peters chiropractor assists St Peters back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and enhance their quality of life.
The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment of patients whose back pain and/or leg pain just started advocates patient education (incorporating a discussion about prognosis), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!
24% of US adults pursue chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults received chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients get chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines drawn up by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical methods like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain resulted in a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these low back pain and leg pain patients go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? The primary care physicians wrote opioid prescriptions more and more. (4) Your St Peters chiropractor offers a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.
But what motivates a visit to a chiropractor like your St Peters chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds correct for Old Mill Chiropractic, too. Our St Peters chiropractic patients view the back pain specialists at Old Mill Chiropractic as back and neck pain relief specialists!) Further, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more likely to check in with a chiropractor in the past year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the same issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% reported that the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your St Peters chiropractor is fully open to combining care! Old Mill Chiropractic is ready to cooperate with your primary care physician whenever possible.
Schedule your St Peters chiropractic visit today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all on your side and want the same thing: non-surgical pain relief as called for by the most recent back pain care guidelines and better quality of life for you, our shared St Peters back pain patient or neck pain patient.
