Rosenberg Wellness Center Treats the Patient Not the MRI
Why do patients opt for back surgery? Pain. What conditions give them the most trouble that leads them to back surgery? Spinal stenosis. Spondylolisthesis. What symptoms do they want gone? Butt pain. Leg pain. Back pain. Rosenberg Wellness Center is here as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain patients, New York City chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients describe all sorts of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal pain. (The saying that something is a “pain in the butt” is a preceise portrayal of some back pain patients’ pain! That pain is a more radicular issue than degenerative change of facet joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most common cause for back surgery for US adults. A study of stenosis patients who have withstood at least 3 years of suffering showed that manual therapy and individualized exercise excelled in helping the most patients get more than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management aims for at least 50% relief in 30 days with many patients finding 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% quicker than that! Rosenberg Wellness Center recognizes that there are New York City back pain sufferers who would celebrate with non-surgical relief like that!
BACK SURGERY: NECESSITY, COST AND IMAGING
Just how many back-pain patients with spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis must have surgery? 0.8%. This comes from a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of this paper suggested doing decompression surgery without or with fusion earlier to reduce the cost of non-operative treatment. (3) Goodness! The cost of a fusion in 2006 was $40,000 (4) and $80,000 to $100,000 in 2013, making back pain the leading cause of disability in the world in front of 290 other conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is reported to be just 2.9% of the expense of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added cost to the treatment of back pain: 1 in 4 (25%) of patients who go to a primary care doctors and 1 in 3 (33%) who go to the emergency room got imaging. (7) And how does imaging enhance patient care and clinical outcome? Interesting question. There is no correlation between MRI findings for stenosis and the severity of pain, quality of life, depression or anxiety. (8, 9) What does enhance patient care and clinical outcome? Collaboration between physicians – surgical and non-surgical spine experts – helps chronic back pain patients improve in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Rosenberg Wellness Center welcomes such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! Your feeling better is our goal!
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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Kurt Olding on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Olding shares lumbar spinal stenosis care with Cox® Technic that let a woman continue living life her way!
Schedule a non-surgical New York City chiropractic care appointment with Rosenberg Wellness Center today. Physical, mental and emotional pain relief may be relieved and back surgery avoided with gentle, safe chiropractic care at Rosenberg Wellness Center where patient care is based on the patient not the MRI!
