“Doc, do I have to see you for a long time?”
“No, but you might well want
to!”
Researchers are documenting the
support for chiropractic care in the shorter and longer
term also known as maintenance care. Advantages include
pain relief and return of function in the short term and sustained
pain relief, prolonged function, and higher
confidence in doing activities of daily living.
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn leaves it up to our
Ashburn chiropractic clients who know themselves and their
bodies best.
CHIROPRACTIC RELIEF: TIME, VISITS AND WORSE PAIN, FUNCTION
RETURN
A RAND Human Subjects Protection Committee-approved study of
chronic back pain (1362) and chronic neck pain (1214) patients evaluated
how quickly they improved with chiropractic care and how much
functional improvement they felt. The involved
patients were documented as suffering with mild pain for
the most part. Back and neck pain reduced, and function improved
gradually over three months of chiropractic care. When frequency of
chiropractic visits was mixed in the analysis,
those with the worst pain had more visits. Only visits more
than once a week for chronic low back pain patients impacted the outcome
toward more
improvement. (1) Studies like this can assist patients with their
expectations and payers with their treatment plan decision-making for coverage.
Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is so glad to read about these published studies to present to our
Ashburn back pain patients.
TREATMENT PLANNING FOR BACK PAIN RELIEF: Chiropractic Maintenance
Care
Not all back pain patients are the same. Ashburn back pain has biological, social,
and psychological influences]30] that should be taken into
consideration, too. A study of
back pain patients’ response to chiropractic care alone versus
multidisciplinary care found a relatively small difference in
outcome which makes sense that adding
ancillary care helps. (2) Same with continued
chiropractic care. Patients who kept to the maintenance care
recommendations reported fewer pain days and fewer activity-limited
days. (3) Back pain patients who followed
recommendations for maintenance care valued its being patient-centered. Cost,
low availability, and fear of treatment were factors they thought stood in
the way of their following recommended maintenance
care. (4) A patient with a 13-year history of chiropractic once-monthly maintenance care incorporating cervical
spine long-y distraction for cervical radiculopathy and related
retrolisthesis (backward slipping of one spinal vertebral bone on its spinal
neighbors) kept the patient
asymptomatic, sustained the spine functioning as best as
possible, and produced a gradual decrease
in the cervical spine retrolisthesis. Older neck pain patients who received
long-term chiropractic care and exercise for neck pain reported
greater improvement in pain, function, balance, and self-efficacy (confidence
in doing daily activities and such). Chiropractic care was considered
to improve pain and control symptoms while
exercise supported self-efficacy and confidence in being
able to stay active and mobile and in being able to
self-manage their condition. (6) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn carefully creates
a treatment plan for each unique patient for best possible
outcomes for each.
CONTACT Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn
Listen to the PODCAST
with Dr. Robert Borzone on the
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
explains the effectiveness of continued chiropractic
care with the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient
with a disc herniation.
Schedule your next Ashburn chiropractic
appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Our back pain and neck pain patients don’t have to see us, but many do because they feel
good and want to keep feeling good.