Most Chiropractic Clinic Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a place in managing and relieving pain that shouldn’t be overlooked. Primary care physicians aren’t very confident in treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the leading prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who takes care of 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Murfreesboro chiropractor at Most Chiropractic Clinic sees many pain patients and eases plenty of Murfreesboro back pain often exclusive of opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

The following stats are based on a large study of 478,981 freshly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who start utilizing opiates for pain relief. (2)

• 40.4% of pain patients obtained opioid prescriptions initially inside the first year of pain but only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
• Family practice doctors are the most common first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
• Patients who look for care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most likely to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
• Patients diagnosed first by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have a higher risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Most Chiropractic Clinic invites pain patients to seek Murfreesboro chiropractic care first!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) take care of chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least probable physicians to feel confident managing musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Most Chiropractic Clinic confidently offer non-drug management and/or co-management with other healthcare personnel for the pain relief and pain control for Murfreesboro back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

Most Chiropractic Clinic wonders why chiropractors are not more immediately thought of in the process for Murfreesboro pain relief, particularly Murfreesboro back pain relief. Chiropractic services incorporate spinal manipulation (one of the top recommended types of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What prevents some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also notes that patients believe their medical doctor understands nutrition. (4) And that’s fine if healthcare professionals coordinated care along their lines of expertise, recognizing that each has a role in the care of the pain patient and has the best interest of the patient at heart. Chiropractors are well skilled in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Recognizing that a healthcare provider’s profession influences his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for Murfreesboro back pain patient care are established in an attempt to apply the expertise maximally. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient receives a consistent therapy message with current treatment guidelines. Activity messages do differ by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more consistent with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) Most Chiropractic Clinic collaborates with other local Murfreesboro healthcare providers for patient care, valuing their expertise and involvement in Murfreesboro back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day more pleasant.

CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic

Schedule a Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment with Most Chiropractic Clinic for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your Murfreesboro chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow Murfreesboro healthcare providers and to offer you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.