Juneau Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines
Back pain comes. Back pain lingers sporadically. Back pain goes away for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its course, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to go away. The hope of a quick fixing pill is strong. The desire for relief is unrelenting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are available. Aurora Chiropractic Center offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Juneau back pain and neck pain that satisfies!
RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE
Radicular low back pain – the back pain that radiates down the leg – is often the most annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were generally prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation influenced the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years of age. The odds of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly less for those receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation. The odds did go up a bit as the back pain lingered: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also questioned whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications affected this. Their sensitivity analysis did not have anything to do with the risk. The study closed by saying that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly decreased the odds of a prescription for and affected the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who began with the chiropractic manipulation path were more apt to get published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Juneau back pain sufferers wondering where to go for their back pain: Aurora Chiropractic Center!
OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers with acute onset, initial episode of back pain often go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in this setting was reported as not always adhering to clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. Researchers back in 2016 reported that such early opioid prescribing for uncomplicated acute low back pain multiplied the long-term use of opioids and the cost of care notwithstanding the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes linked to opioid use. (2) Juneau back pain sufferers who visit Aurora Chiropractic Center discover other non-drug care that is recommended for relief of back pain.
RECOMMENDED BACK PAIN TREATMENT OPTIONS
The American College of Physicians published recommendations for care of low back pain in 2009. (3) Spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain in adults. 97%-98% of spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether the recommendations were followed showed some eye-opening facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people resulted in 545 low back pain sufferers who visited a medical doctor in the past year. They were asked what type of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed it. 96% said they were given a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor advised drug and non-drug therapies. 76% - NSAIDs and acetaminophen. 79% - self-care treatments. 37% - massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation. 60% - physical therapy. Nearly 66% said prescriptions (benzodiazepine, opioids, gabapentin, Neurontin, cortisone injections) were advised. Follow through on the recommendations by patients varied from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Aurora Chiropractic Center deliveres safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.
Make your Juneau chiropractic appointment now. Back pain - be it new or old, sudden or lingering – may well find relief in recommended spinal manipulation care at Aurora Chiropractic Center.
