“I don’t 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 assorted goals for their pain. Healthcare
policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Moses Chiropractic knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some trace of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
Moses Chiropractic’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 gone
through a few bouts with either condition realize
this, too. They align their healthcare goals with their
experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control
to prevent pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain
episodes as quickly as possible. Moses Chiropractic is the
West Palm Beach chiropractic place for back and neck pain
patients. Moses Chiropractic is home of the West Palm Beach 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 experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and
chronic neck pain (729) revealed their goals for
chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wanted the pain to cease permanently
and tended to have had
pain for a shorter time and hold a deeper
belief in medical cure; they sought a cure. 22% of low back pain
and 16% of neck pain patients wished to
stop their pain from coming back and were
more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients sought to prevent their pain from
getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wished
temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups 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 written 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 fourth visit.
(2) Certainly, having healthcare providers of various professions working as a team
can raise low back pain patients’ likelihoods of
relief. (3) Today, the patient is the focus for
healthcare providers. Patient-centered care depends on
patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective needs
to always be considered. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is essential. (4) At Moses Chiropractic the
West Palm Beach back pain patient is at the center of all
we do.
CONTACT Moses Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he details
his story of being a back pain patient desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
helped him.
Schedule your West Palm Beach chiropractic visit with
your West Palm Beach back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.
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