Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic
Guidelines for back pain care endorse non-surgical care approaches like spinal manipulation. So who provides non-surgical care? A recent study just came out and said that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) So true! Chiropractors like your Elgin chiropractor at Connected Chiropractic relish that responsibility. Your Elgin chiropractor helps Elgin back pain and neck pain patients get relief of the pain and enhance their quality of life.
The newest guideline for non-surgical treatment of patients whose back pain and/or leg pain just started recommends 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 seek chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults got chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why don’t more patients seek 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 ended with a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these patients with low back pain and leg pain 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 Elgin chiropractor offers a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.
But what prompts a visit to a chiropractor like your Elgin chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds right for Connected Chiropractic, too. Our Elgin chiropractic patients see us as the Elgin back and neck pain specialists!) Additionally, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more prone to consult a chiropractor in the last year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% thought the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your Elgin chiropractor is fully open to combining care! Connected Chiropractic is ready to collaborate with your primary care physician as necessary.
Schedule your Elgin chiropractic appointment today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all with you and desire the same thing: non-surgical pain relief suggested by the most recent back pain care guidelines and better quality of life for you, our shared Elgin back pain patient or neck pain patient.
