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Ashburn Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors

Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report drew the attention of Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn as it describes the current status of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Ashburn chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Ashburn.

PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION

Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They encounter conditions like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are now. Chiropractors are still most commonly known for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a suggested first-line treatment for low back pain. They uncovered that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are desired. Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors fell from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who provide spinal manipulation grew from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors delivering spinal manipulation is growing. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and organizer of the Council for Chiropractic Education that founded federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he called the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”

SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS

Chiropractic schools aim to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A new survey of faculty at one chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were trained in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be educated via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a positive idea. 81% felt elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a successful clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic used in this Ashburn chiropractic clinic.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran. 

Make your next Ashburn chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!

Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn uses spinal manipulation daily as a representative of the chiropractic profession which is recognized as being the profession of spinal manipulation practitioners.
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