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Spinal Care Clinic Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively

Have you heard it said that numbers don’t lie? There are lots of numbers available in the world of back pain and neck pain statistics regarding costs and outcomes. Spinal Care Clinic presents a few of the latest ones that are quite interesting and reassuring of our Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic method using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

OPTIONS USED FOR BACK PAIN VS BACK PAIN GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS

Treatment guidelines for back pain are well-published.  Are they observed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 had persistent low back pain. These patients weren’t surgical candidates and had experienced conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% utilized physical therapy, 50% experienced chiropractic, 26% received steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. At odds with low back pain treatment guidelines, most patients were prescribed opioids while several non-drug treatments were utilized by only a few. (1) Another report stated that 775,893 general practitioner visits resulted in 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-pharmacological treatment option for commonly referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were very large. (1) Burlington and Hamilton back pain treatment costs are not that different.

COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE

A review of Humana healthcare claims resulted in these findings: the pre-operative costs of conservative treatment alternatives for cervical spine radiculopathy were only 37.7% of the overall non-operative expenses for this condition. Injection costs were the highest, coming in at $988 on average per patient. Other expenses were – in order of cost expenditure - physical therapy ($510), medications (narcotics, gabapentin, NSAIDs), bracing ($193), and chiropractic services ($193). 62% of overall costs for care of cervical radiculopathy went to diagnostic tests and such.  (3) Burlington and Hamilton neck and back pain sufferers have an experienced chiropractor at Spinal Care Clinic.

INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE

Recent data revealed a 106% rise in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that led to a referral to another physician partially because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that presented this finding concluded with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would be referred to as their first subspeciality, a surgeon. Further, patients who are less likely to need surgery would see a non-operative spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor at Spinal Care Clinic is well-prepared to be the Burlington and Hamilton non-surgical spine specialist this article suggests for our Burlington and Hamilton low back pain and neck pain and arm pain and leg pain sufferers!

CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF TREATMENT

Of 609 patients with sciatica and back-related leg pain visiting primary care physicians, only 55% gave an account of ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more decrease in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management strive for at minimum a 50% reduction of pain non-surgically in 30 days. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly better with Cox® Technic flexion distraction therapy than with physical therapy. (6) In a study of post-surgical continued back pain patients, 81% of them scored greater than 50% relief of pain in 11 visits in 49 days (mean). At two your follow-up, 78.6% of them still had greater than 50% relief of pain. Mean relief of pain was continued: 71.6% at the end of active care and 70% at 2-year follow-up. (7) Your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractor provides just such relief and knows when to refer if needed.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Byron Folwell on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management integration for relieving post-surgical continued back pain.

Make your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment soon. Do not let numbers concern you. Let them enlighten your path to pain relief. See you soon!

 
Spinal Care Clinic explains the various costs associated with back pain and neck pain care options, both surgical and non-surgical, pharmacological and non-drug.  
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