Pure Chiropractic Treats Back Pain and Neck Pain Cost and Pain-Reducing Effectively
Have you heard it said that numbers don’t lie? With all the numbers out there about back and neck pain costs and outcomes, we can put that to the test. Pure Chiropractic presents a few of the more recent ones that are quite interesting and reassuring of our Concord, NC chiropractic approach 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 followed? Of 100 million patient healthcare insurance claims, 56,000 experienced persistent low back pain. These patients weren’t surgical candidates and had gone through conventional medical care. Of those 56,000, 60% utilized physical therapy, 50% underwent chiropractic, 26% received steroid injections and 66% used prescribed pain meds (57% opioids, 38% muscle relaxants). Were guidelines followed? Not exactly. In contradiction to low back pain treatment guidelines, most patients were given opioids while several non-drug treatments were used by only a few. (1) Another report stated that 775,893 general practitioner visits led to 6,904 referrals (just 0.89%) to physiotherapy, a non-drug treatment choice for frequently referred problems like low back pain and osteoarthritis. (2) The healthcare costs of these patients were quite large. (1) Concord, NC back pain treatment costs don’t vary that much.
COSTS OF BACK PAIN CARE
A review of Humana healthcare claims resulted in these findings: the pre-operative costs of conservative treatment options for cervical spine radiculopathy were just 37.7% of the overall non-operative expenses for this condition. Injection costs were the highest, costing $988 on average per patient. Other costs 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) Concord, NC neck and back pain sufferers have an experienced chiropractic option in their chiropractor at Pure Chiropractic.
INTERPROFESSIONAL REFERRAL FOR BACK PAIN CARE
New data revealed a 106% increase in the number of physician visits for low back pain and extremity pain that led to a referral to another physician partly because of unsuccessful outpatient conservative treatment. The study that discussed this finding concluded with the suggestion that patients who are most likely to need surgery would meet with a surgeon as their first subspecialty referral visit. Further, patients who are less likely to need surgery would meet with a non-operative spine specialist or primary care physician. (4) Your Concord, NC chiropractor at Pure Chiropractic is well-prepared to be the Concord, NC non-surgical spine specialist this article describes for our Concord, NC 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% reported ‘improvement’ – just 30% or more reduction in disability - at one year follow-up. (5) Chiropractors using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seek at least 50% decrease of pain non-surgically in 30 days. In a 1000 cases study of Cox® Technic treatment outcomes, leg pain radicular patients improved significantly more 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 more 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 Concord, NC chiropractor provides just such relief and understands 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 illustrates The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management incorporation for relieving post-surgical continued back pain.
Make your Concord, NC chiropractic appointment now. Don’t let numbers worry you. Let them lead you down the path to pain relief. See you soon!
