The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR Respects the Painful Spine with Evidence-Based Care

The spine merits respect. The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR respects all Colorado Springs spines, those healthy and those hurting. When the spine hurts, it demands attention. The attention the hurting spine gets is not 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 Colorado Springs chiropractor respects the spine and matches 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 favorable for spine pain often delivered even in Colorado Springs? 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 reported to be effective for low back pain relief. (2) Spinal manipulation as a conservative treatment should be attempted by patients with chronic low back pain and low back pain related disability. (3) Flexion distraction delivers clinically meaningful improvement in pain by 79% and disability by 70% at 14.5 months follow-up. (4) Research reports that surgical methods and outcomes vary from place to place for patients with the same condition. It calls for standardization of care and the establishment of international guidelines based about what works best according to such evidence. (5) The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR agrees that published guidelines documenting what is most effective require respectful use.

CLINICAL REALITY

What is really going on? A just released article that reviewed the care of Canadian spine pain patients sent for spine surgery bluntly stated 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 tried evidence-based non-operative treatments before a spine surgery consultation, fewer would be referred and, in Canada, fewer would deteriorate as they have to wait such a long time to see the surgeon. (6) Lumbar cage fusion rates rose from 3.6% to 58% in 5 years that resulted in escalated complication risk without any improvement in disability or reoperation rates. (7) The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR offers Colorado Springs chiropractic spine care with less invasive, more effective means, particularly with the evidence-based protocols of Cox Technic.

MAKE A Colorado Springs CHIROPRACTIC APPOINTMENT

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

Schedule a Colorado Springs chiropractic consultation now with the Colorado Springs spine specialist at The Chiropractic TRUhealthDR where your hurting spine is seen with respect and relieving care as evidence reports as being best.