Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a place
in managing and easing pain that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Primary care physicians are not very confident in treating
musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the leading
prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who treats 40% of
pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Tonawanda chiropractor at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
takes care of many pain patients and eases plenty of Tonawanda back pain often with
no opioids.
STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN
The following stats are based
on a large study of 478,981 freshly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve”
patients who start taking opiates for pain relief. (2)
- 40.4% of pain patients obtained
opioid prescriptions originally inside
the first year of pain but only 4% met the requirement for
long-term use.
- Family practice doctors are the most usual
first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in
the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term,
continued opiate use.
- Patients who seek care from emergency
medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most likely to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
- Patients diagnosed initially by a pain
management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have an increased risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation welcomes pain patients to seek
Tonawanda chiropractic care sooner than later!
PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN
Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%),
chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) care for
chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least likely
physicians to feel confident managing musculoskeletal and neuropathic
pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation confidently use
non-drug management and/or co-management with other healthcare
personnel for the pain relief and pain control for Tonawanda back
pain patients.
CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation ponders why
chiropractors aren’t more readily considered
in the process for Tonawanda pain relief, especially
Tonawanda back pain relief. Chiropractic services include
spinal manipulation (one of the top recommended forms
of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of
Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What prevents some
medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason
in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate
Without Training.” It also notes that patients think
their medical doctor understands nutrition. (4) And that’s fine if
healthcare professionals coordinated care along their
lines of expertise, recognizing that each
has a role in the care of the pain patient and has the best interest
of the patient at heart. Chiropractors are
proficient in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back
pain, and spine pain.
COORDINATING CARE
Knowing that a healthcare provider’s
profession effects his/her treatment recommendations,
guidelines for Tonawanda back pain patient care are established
in an attempt to apply the expertise maximally.
Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their
recommendation standards so that a patient gets a consistent
therapy message with current treatment guidelines. Activity messages
do differ by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in
their recommendations of activity; physicians were more consistent
with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work
activity than physicians. (5) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation collaborates with other
local Tonawanda healthcare providers for patient care, valuing
their expertise and contribution to Tonawanda
back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day more
pleasant.
CONTACT Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation
Schedule a Tonawanda chiropractic appointment with
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your
Tonawanda chiropractor is ready and willing to
work with fellow Tonawanda healthcare providers and to give you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or
alongside opioid drug care.