Baton Rouge Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care
“I don’t want this pain to worsen.”
“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. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers knows otherwise. We all want relief and some hint of control over how and when back pain and neck pain develop and ease. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers’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 isn’t always a cure, but there is often control to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain episodes as fast as possible. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is the Baton Rouge chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers is home of the Baton Rouge 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 newly released study of 1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) found their goals for chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wished for the pain to cease permanently and tended to have experienced pain for a briefer period of time and hold a deeper belief in medical cure; they wanted a cure. 22% of low back pain and 16% of neck pain patients wished to stop their pain from coming back and were more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients wanted to keep their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients sought temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups of patients were more likely to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person depending on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers really should understand. (1) Such patient expectations are documented to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the fourth appointment. (2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare providers working together can boost low back pain patients’ chances of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for healthcare providers. Patient-centered care depends on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be considered. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is vital. (4) At Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers the Baton Rouge back pain patient is at the center of everything 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 details his story of being a back pain patient desiring pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management eased his pain.
Schedule your Baton Rouge chiropractic visit with your Baton Rouge back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.
