Palmer Chiropractic Center Respects the Painful Spine with Evidence-Based Care

The spine deserves respect. Palmer Chiropractic Center respects all Lynchburg spines, those healthy and those hurting. When the spine hurts, it demands attention. The attention the hurting spine gets isn’t always respectful of the guidelines for its pain relief. That fact is receiving notice in the medical research. Evidence based guidelines for a painful spine’s care are abundant, but they are not always respected. They are published but not always read or implemented. The spine deserves better. Your Lynchburg chiropractor respects the spine and complements its trouble to the best evidence-based protocol for its relief which is frequently non-surgical and non-drug.

CLINICAL GUIDELINES AND APPROACHES

What is recommended and/or beneficial for spine pain often provided even in Lynchburg? The American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians recommend spinal manipulation for low back pain. (1) Flexion distraction (aka Cox Technic) and manual therapy using joint mobilization techniques and flexion distraction is written to be effective for low back pain relief. (2) Conservative treatment in the form of spinal manipulation should be undertaken by patients with chronic low back pain and disability related to low back pain. (3) Flexion distraction brings clinically meaningful improvement in pain by 79% and disability by 70% at 14.5 months follow-up. (4) Research notes that surgical approaches and outcomes differ from place to place for patients with the same condition. It calls for standardization of care and the establishment of international guidelines built on what works best according to such evidence. (5) Palmer Chiropractic Center agrees that published guidelines showing what is best require respectful use.

CLINICAL REALITY

What is being done? A just released article that reviewed the care of Canadian spine pain patients referred for spine surgery bluntly wrote that “Surgeons do not use clinical practice guidelines before spine surgery.” What did they do? Prescribed medications to 74.2% of them 46.3% of whom got opioids.  61.1% of patients tried two or fewer non-surgical forms of treatment. The article suggests that if patients attempted to use evidence-based non-operative treatments before a spine surgery consultation, fewer would be referred and, in Canada, fewer would get worse as they have to wait such a long time to see the surgeon. (6) Lumbar cage fusion rates increased from 3.6% to 58% in 5 years that lead to escalated complication risk without any improvement in disability or reoperation rates. (7) Palmer Chiropractic Center offers Lynchburg chiropractic spine care with less invasive, more effective means, particularly with the evidence-based protocols of Cox Technic.

MAKE A Lynchburg CHIROPRACTIC APPOINTMENT

Listen to this PODCAST with medical doctor, Dr. David Moen, who encourages non-surgical care of back pain with chiropractic for less costly and unnecessary medical care.

Schedule a Lynchburg chiropractic consultation today with the Lynchburg spine specialist at Palmer Chiropractic Center where your hurting spine is seen with respect and relieving care as evidence reports as being best.