Back Pain Helped by Accessible Chiropractic Care in Cost and Relief
Back pain and neck pain are often painful as well as costly and manytimes complex. Overall health care spending in the US keeps increasing: $1.4 trillion in 1996 to $3.1 trillion in 2016. It accounts for 18% of the US economy as of 2020. Of the top 154 conditions paid for by insurers,
low back pain and
neck pain were the costliest at $134.5 billion.
(If you’re curious, #2 was musculoskeletal disorders, and #3 was diabetes care.) (1) In one study of Medicare expenditures for chiropractic spine care, researchers reported that $400 to $500 million was spent each year. They also stated that
more accessibility to chiropractic reduced the reliance on primary care services for spine pain conditions. Further, some financial savings for treatment of spine pain conditions was reported for ambulatory patients that may well add up to large savings since spine pain conditions are so common in older adults. (2) Ambulatory patients can get themselves to a healthcare provider, and many find their way to chiropractors. Chiropractors are known for their care of the spine and spine-related, musculoskeletal conditions. A recent study reported that they, predictably, usually chose
spinal manipulation for clinical encounters involving spinal conditions and soft tissue approaches for extremity pain conditions.
(3) Chiropractors are well-educated to recognize co-morbidities, conditions that spine pain patients experience in addition to spine pain that are not spine related. Researchers are presently collecting data that will show just how many such conditions chiropractors see in their patients.
(4) This existence of non-spine related conditions is a basis for chiropractors’ intensive diagnostic training and comfort with co-management with other medical care as is necessary. Your chiropractor is ready to examine, diagnose, and treat your
spine-related pain condition no matter its complexity in a cost-effective, gentle, evidence-based manner often using
The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
TIP OF THE MONTH: Understand Spinal Muscle Care: Electrical Current
Care of the spinal muscles is important, too. This applies to the young and old! For the older folks, it is really essential as loss of skeletal spinal mass - which alters lumbar lordosis, too - makes them vulnerable to chronic low back pain. (5) Fatty infiltration of the paraspinal muscles showed a significant relationship to a higher risk of back pain and disability in a recent study. (6) Electrical stimulation (in addition to exercise and nutrition which your chiropractor also encourages!) is helpful in improving spinal muscle. Interferential current was reportedly better than placebo at decreasing pain and disability immediately after use in chronic low back pain patients. (7) Your individualized Murfreesboro chiropractic treatment plan may include such add-on care along with spinal manipulation. Embrace it!
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jay Young on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson about use of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management to manage back pain in a patient with degenerative disc disease.
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Make your next Murfreesboro chiropractic appointment with Most Chiropractic Clinic now. We look forward to seeing you soon! And we're happy to share our chiropractic services to help alleviate your pain.
