“I do not want this pain to get any 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. Spinal Care Clinic knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some trace of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and
disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
Spinal Care Clinic’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 prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain
bouts as quickly as possible. Spinal Care Clinic is the
Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic place for back and neck pain
patients. Spinal Care Clinic is home of the Burlington and Hamilton 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 issues. About a third of them wished
for the pain to cease permanently
and were more likely to have suffered with
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 coming back and tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients wished 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 discrepancy from person to person
depending on their experience that chiropractors and other
healthcare providers really should recognize. (1)
Such patient expectations are reported 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 4th appointment.
(2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare
providers working together
can raise low back pain patients’ likelihoods of
relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care relies on
patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective needs
to always be taken into account. And when it
comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is vital. (4) At Spinal Care Clinic the
Burlington and Hamilton back pain patient is at the center of everything
we do.
CONTACT Spinal Care Clinic
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 desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
eased his pain.
Schedule your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic visit with
your Burlington and Hamilton back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.
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