Juneau Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report drew the attention of Aurora Chiropractic Center as it describes the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Juneau chiropractor puts forth effort to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Juneau.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They face spine issues like back pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically delivers the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare sees it, too. A new study of the clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated anywhere from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in a state to 260 per 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation grew from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education which founded federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded the “young doctors” - as he referred to the chiropractic students he mentored - “never stop delivering the chiropractic spinal adjustment.”
SPINAL MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES TAUGHT IN CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOLS
Chiropractic schools strive to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be instructed via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders deemed preclinical technique courses were a good idea. 81% reported that they thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is vital to set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Basing the choice of which techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Aurora Chiropractic Center welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Juneau chiropractic clinic.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Juneau chiropractic appointment with Aurora Chiropractic Center now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Aurora Chiropractic Center who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
