Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn Helps Back Pain Patients Manage Their Back Pain
Chiropractic’s goal is to provide the back pain sufferer a sense of control over the back pain and to live through the pain while not avoiding life. That’s also the goal of your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor: gentle, pain-relieving, conservative care of spine pain. It is a partnership involving the Ashburn and Herndon 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 Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn enjoy their profession most as they are able to reduce pain as well as increase strength, flexibility, and power with their patients via a thorough 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 Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor agrees! Being your healthcare partner - your back pain specialist - particularly in managing spine pain issues is a big part of daily practice.
EFFECT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AVAILABILITY: MD/Surgeon, DC, PCP
Researchers wondered 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 increase of one primary care physician decreased 2.5 conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults, and the addition of one chiropractor increased 18.7 conservative care episodes and subtracted 3.6 non-conservative care episodes per 1000 mature adults. The researchers state certain limitations in their study as they pulled a specific 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 study. (2) In the Medicare population, healthcare provider availability impacts how much is expended on each beneficiary. The effect is transformed by provider type and whether the provider availability increases or decreases. Spine surgeon availability was most strongly linked with increased spending. The loss of one spine surgeon in a community decreased spending. (3) In Ashburn and Herndon, back pain sufferers get a partner at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn who can guide them with in-office care as well as at-home self-care.
EFFECT OF BACK PAIN PATIENT SELF CARE
Medicine is recognizing that the one who is really at the center of managing pain and chronic disorders is the person experiencing pain and chronic disorder. When back pain is the chronic issue, the low back pain patient self-manages most of the time anyway and desires suggestions about how best to do that: when to pursue more care (symptoms, imaging, advice), how to manage pain (behavioral changes to contain and prevent pain), and how to be assured of their independent pain management’s effectiveness. These all take support from clinicians along the lines of education about the condition and the partnership of the patient and the healthcare provider. (4) Ashburn and Herndon back pain sufferers and their healthcare providers like your chiropractor at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn must work on how each views back pain management to best help the patient!
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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 successfully eases back pain due to spinal stenosis and assists the patient in his own self-care practice to manage and stop another episode of back pain.
Make your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn now. Along with delivering relieving chiropractic spinal manipulation, Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn attempts to offer our Ashburn and Herndon spine pain patients a sense of control over their situation.
