Juneau Chiropractor Embraces the role of Back Pain Specialist
When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation often sounds like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Juneau attending a meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My neck is really hurting.”
Your Juneau chiropractor welcomes this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever! Juneau chiropractic patients at Aurora Chiropractic Center know this for sure. Your Juneau chiropractor accepts the reputation as the Juneau back pain specialist. Being a primary spine practitioner is so exciting and engaging! Aurora Chiropractic Center understands back pain and neck pain, is a specialty clinic for spine pain patients, and is not shy in the least about letting everyone know in Juneau.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant for Gallup partnered with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for a study that found that 78% of American adults would rather use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults believed physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe when compared to pain meds. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about Chiropractors,” he stressed how bad the opioid crisis is in the US and that evidence-based non-drug approaches like spinal manipulation are practical alternatives. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers wrote that chiropractic is seen by society as a profession of health care providers who are experts in spine care as their education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing revolve around spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed that chiropractic care was effective in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% believed chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Aurora Chiropractic Center understands this. Aurora Chiropractic Center grasps that Juneau back pain and neck pain patients find relief with the Juneau chiropractic care and then trust Aurora Chiropractic Center to point them in other healthy approaches to control their back pain conditions and improve their health and spine to avert future adverse health and/or spinal pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially trained to care for patients with spinal disease, primary spine practitioners perform many responsibilities: diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), give evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise, education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and organize all aspects of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when needed). (4) It is a big job with lots of responsibility! It’s truly the role your Juneau chiropractor embraces! What do Juneau back pain sufferers wants? Consumers desire access to non-drug therapies provided by spine care experts like chiropractors first. Such access helps in a few ways. One is increasing the value of spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care shortage. (1,5) Three is lessening the cost of care. (6) Four is potentially reining in the opioid epidemic. The American College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically say that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Aurora Chiropractic Center is here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Juneau SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a patient who does not want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Juneau chiropractic appointment with Aurora Chiropractic Center to investigate the benefit of having the Juneau back pain specialist taking care of your back pain and spine pain without medications in most cases.
