Chiropractic’s goal is to give
the back pain patient a sense of control over the back pain and
to live through the pain and not avoid life. That is
also the goal of your Vancouver chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative
care of spine pain. It’s a partnership among the Vancouver
back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie
Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE
OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is the
best! A new survey reported that chiropractors like
yours at Vancouver Disc Centers enjoy their profession
most because they are able to reduce pain
and increase strength, flexibility, and power alongside
their patients through an inclusive
treatment plan. Two of the top features of being a chiropractor were
marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the basis
for quality care and wanted clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality
of life.” (1) Your Vancouver chiropractor agrees! Being
your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain
issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER
AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned
how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of
low back pain sufferers. They discovered that one new spine surgeon
increased non-conservative care episodes by 31.3
per 1000 older adults, the increase of one primary care physician
decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 elder
adults, and the addition of one chiropractor added 18.7
conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative
care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers admit
certain limitations in their study as they extracted a specific
set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had
at least one occurrence of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the study. (2) In the
Medicare population, healthcare provider availability affects
how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is altered
by provider type and whether the provider availability increases
or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked
with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a
community reduced spending. (3) In Vancouver, back
pain sufferers have a partner at Vancouver Disc Centers who can help
them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF
CARE
Medicine is realizing
that the one who is truly at the center of managing pain
and chronic disorders is the person dealing with
pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic
issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of
the time anyway and wants suggestions regarding
how best to do that: when to seek more care (symptoms,
imaging, advice), how to handle pain (behavioral changes to manage
and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s
effectiveness. These all
take support from clinicians concerning education about the condition and the collaboration
of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Vancouver back pain
sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Vancouver Disc Centers
need to communicate how each sees back
pain management to best help the patient!
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Keith Bartley on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management gently and successfully
eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports
the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next Vancouver
chiropractic appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers now. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic
spinal manipulation, Vancouver Disc Centers strives to give
our Vancouver spine pain patients a sense of control over their condition.