Back pain comes. Back pain lingers occasionally. Back pain leaves for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its path, back pain annoys its sufferer who just wants it to go away. The hope of a quick relieving pill is strong. The desire for relief is unrelenting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are out there. New Hampshire Spine and Sport offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Southern New Hampshire back pain and neck pain that pleases!
RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE
Radicular low back pain – the back pain that radiates down the leg – is many times the most irritating. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were frequently prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation influenced the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The risk of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly less for those undergoing chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did go up a bit as the back pain stayed: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also examined whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications influenced this. Their sensitivity analysis didn’t have anything to do with the risk. The study concluded 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 started with the chiropractic manipulation path were more likely to receive published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Southern New Hampshire back pain sufferers deliberating where to go for their back pain: New Hampshire Spine and Sport!
OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN
Back pain sufferers with acute onset, preliminary episode of back pain commonly go to the emergency room for assistance. Opioid prescribing in the ED was reported as not always adhering to clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. Researchers back in 2016 reported that prescribing opioids so early for uncomplicated acute low back pain multiplied the long-term use of opioids as well as the cost of care notwithstanding the fact that there are a variety of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) Southern New Hampshire back pain sufferers finding their way to New Hampshire Spine and Sport find 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. Chiropractors make up 97%-98% of the spinal manipulation providers. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether the recommendations were followed showed some interesting facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people gave rise to 545 low back pain sufferers who went to a medical doctor in the past year. They were asked what form of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed that care. 96% said they received a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor recommended 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 recommended. Follow through on the recommendations by patients ranged from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) New Hampshire Spine and Sport provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.
CONTACT New Hampshire Spine and Sport
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 Southern New Hampshire chiropractic appointment today. Back pain - be it acute or chronic, sudden or lingering – may well find its match in recommended spinal manipulation care at New Hampshire Spine and Sport.