Ashburn and Herndon Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I do not want this pain to get worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients have a tendency to have different goals for their pain. Healthcare policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn knows otherwise. We all want relief and some trace of control over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn’s chiropractic care examines a problem like back and neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have had a few episodes with either condition acknowledge this, too. They align their healthcare goals with their experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain episodes as fast as possible. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is the Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic place for back and neck pain patients. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn is home of the Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and neck pain patients well. A recent study of 1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wanted the pain to go away permanently and were more likely to have experienced pain for a briefer period of time and hold a stronger belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients sought to prevent their pain from returning and were more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients sought to stop their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wanted temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients were more likely to have had pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person contingent on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers need to recognize. (1) Such patient expectations are reported to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study documented that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more apt to report an improvement at the 4th appointment. (2) Certainly, having healthcare providers of various professions working as a team can boost low back pain patients’ likelihoods of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for healthcare providers. Patient-centered care relies on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is key. (4) At Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn the Ashburn and Herndon back pain patient is at the center of all we do.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares his story of being a back pain patient wanting pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eased his pain.
Schedule your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic visit with your Ashburn and Herndon back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
