Rosenberg Wellness Center Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to give the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That is also the goal of your New York City chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It’s a partnership involving the New York City back pain sufferer, the back pain care giver, and even the back pain payer (ie Medicare).
CHIROPRACTIC ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ROLE OF BACK PAIN PROVIDER
Being a chiropractor is amazing! A new survey found that chiropractors like yours at Rosenberg Wellness Center relish their profession most because they are capable to decrease pain and build strength, flexibility, and power with their patients via a comprehensive treatment plan. Two of the best features of being a chiropractor were marked as “being trained to diagnose” – the foundation for quality care and desirable clinical outcomes! - and “being able to transform peoples’ quality of life.” (1) Your New York City chiropractor concurs! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - especially in managing spine pain issues is the best part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers questioned how a community’s healthcare workforce influenced the care of low back pain sufferers. They found that one new spine surgeon added to the number of non-conservative care episodes by 31.3 per 1000 older adults, the addition of one primary care physician reduced 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 older adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and decreased 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they extracted a certain set of patients from the 16 million Medicare Part B enrollees (who had at least one episode of low back pain and relocation) which left 402,372 persons in the analysis set. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is altered by provider type and whether the provider availability rises or falls. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community reduced spending. (3) In New York City, back pain sufferers have a partner at Rosenberg Wellness Center who can guide them with in-office care in addition to at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is recognizing that the one who is really at the core of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person dealing with pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages much of the time anyway and needs suggestions about how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to handle and prevent pain), and how to be confident in managing their pain independently. These all take guidance from clinicians regarding education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) New York City back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Rosenberg Wellness Center must communicate how each sees back pain management to best reduce the pain!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Keith Bartley on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management gently and effectively eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and supports the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and prevent back pain.
Make your next New York City chiropractic appointment with Rosenberg Wellness Center soon. In conjunction with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Rosenberg Wellness Center strives to give our New York City spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation.
