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Ashburn Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines

Back pain appears. Back pain lingers sporadically. Back pain goes away for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its path, back pain annoys its sufferer who just wants it to leave. The hope of a fast fixing pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive approaches are available. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Ashburn back pain and neck pain that pleases!

RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE

Radicular low back pain – the back pain that radiates down the leg – is many times the most annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were frequently prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation affected the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The odds of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly lower for those receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did rise a bit as the back pain lingered: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also examined whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications influenced this. Their sensitivity analysis didn’t have anything to do with the risk. The study concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly reduced the odds of a prescription for and affected the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who started with the chiropractic manipulation path were more likely to get published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Ashburn back pain sufferers wondering where to go for their back pain: Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn!

OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN

Back pain sufferers with acute onset, initial episode of back pain commonly go to the emergency room for assistance. Opioid prescribing in the ED was reported as not always following clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. In 2016, researchers reported that prescribing opioids so early for uncomplicated acute low back pain increased the long-term use of opioids and the cost of care part from the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) Ashburn back pain sufferers who visit Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn find other non-drug care that is recommended for back pain relief.

RECOMMENDED BACK PAIN TREATMENT OPTIONS

The American College of Physicians published recommendations for care of low back pain in 2009. (3) Spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain in adults. Chiropractors make up 97%-98% of the spinal manipulation providers. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether the recommendations were followed showed some interesting facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people gave rise to 545 low back pain sufferers who visited a medical doctor in the past 12 months. They were asked what form of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed the recommended care. 96% said they received a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor advised drug and non-drug therapies. 76% - NSAIDs and acetaminophen. 79% - self-care treatments. 37% - massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation. 60% - physical therapy. Close to 66% said prescriptions (benzodiazepine, opioids, gabapentin, Neurontin, cortisone injections) were advised. Follow through on the recommendations by patients varied from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.

Schedule your Ashburn chiropractic appointment soon. Back pain - be it new or old, sudden or lingering – may well find its match in recommended spinal manipulation care at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn.

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn provides recommended spinal manipulation which may help reduce the need for benzodiazepines. 
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