Why do patients opt for back surgery? Pain. What conditions
give them the most trouble that leads them to
back surgery? Spinal stenosis. Spondylolisthesis. What symptoms do they want to
get rid of? Butt pain. Leg pain. Back pain. Moses Chiropractic is here
as your first stop to avoid back surgery or, for some, the last stop. For many back-related-pain
patients, West Palm Beach chiropractic care does the trick and averts back surgery.
BACK PAIN SYMPTOMS
Back pain patients report all sorts
of painful and irritating symptoms: leg pain, numb toe(s), painful thighs, gluteal
pain. (The saying that something is a “pain in the butt” is a literal
description of some back pain patients’ pain! That pain
is a more radicular issue than degenerative change of facet
joints. (1)) And lumbar spinal stenosis is the most usual cause
for back surgery for US adults. A research
study of stenosis patients who have endured at least 3
years of pain revealed that manual therapy and
individualized exercise excelled in helping the most patients get
more than 30% improvement in symptoms and 20% in function. (2) Our
use of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management seeks at
least 50% relief in 30 days with many patients getting
60%, 70%, 80% and 90% sooner than that! Moses Chiropractic recognizes
that there are West Palm Beach back pain sufferers who would rejoice
at non-surgical relief like that!
BACK SURGERY: NECESSITY, COST AND IMAGING
Just how many back-pain sufferers with spinal
stenosis or spondylolisthesis need surgery? 0.8%. This is reported in a study of 497,822 patients! The surgeon authors of
this paper suggested doing decompression surgery without or
with fusion earlier to reduce the cost
of non-operative treatment. (3) Oh my! The cost of a fusion in
2006 was $40,000 (4) and $80,000 to $100,000 in 2013, making back pain the leading
cause of disability in the world before 290 other
conditions. (5) [Chiropractic is reported to be just 2.9% of the expense
of back pain management. (6)] Over-imaging has added expense to back pain management: 1 in 4 (25%) of patients who
go to a primary care doctors and 1 in 3 (33%) who go to the emergency room got
imaging. (7) And how does imaging enhance patient
care and clinical outcome? Good question. There is no
correlation between MRI findings for stenosis and the severity of pain, quality
of life, depression or anxiety. (8, 9) What does boost patient
care and clinical outcome? Collaboration between physicians – surgical and
non-surgical spine experts – helps chronic back pain patients improve
in terms of pain as well as socially and mentally. (10) Moses Chiropractic welcomes
such collaboration with you and your healthcare team! Your feeling better is our goal!
CONTACT Moses Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
by Dr. Kurt Olding on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Olding shares
lumbar spinal stenosis care with Cox® Technic that let a
woman continue living life her way!
Schedule a non-surgical West Palm Beach chiropractic care
appointment with Moses Chiropractic today. Physical, mental and emotional pain
relief may be eased and back surgery dodged with
gentle, safe chiropractic care at Moses Chiropractic where patient care is based on the patient not the MRI!