Ashburn and Herndon Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report piqued the attention of Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn as it describes the current status of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor strives to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Ashburn and Herndon.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They encounter spine issues like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare sees it, too. A new study of the clinicians who give spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to 260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are used. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians who provide spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is falling while the supply of non-chiropractors delivering spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education which established federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools strive to incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were trained in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a beneficial idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is important to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of easing the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic clinic.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped reduce low back pain for this military veteran.
Set up your next Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn who performs spinal manipulation every day, keeps track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!
