“I don’t want this pain to get
worse.”
“I want some pain relief.”
“I want pain relief.”
“I want this back pain to go away and never return.”
Back pain and neck pain patients tend
to have assorted goals for their pain. Healthcare
policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some hint of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain arise and go away. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.’s chiropractic care looks at a problem like back and
neck pain and recognizes that often there is no “cure,” but
there is “control.” Back pain and neck pain patients who have experienced a few bouts with either condition realize
this, too. They associate their healthcare goals with their
experience: there is not always a cure, but there is often control
to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain
episodes as fast as possible. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is the
Auburn chiropractic home for back and neck pain
patients. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. is home of the Auburn back pain
specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and
neck pain patients well. A newly released study of
1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and
chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for
chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wished
for the pain to go away forever
and tended to have had
pain for a briefer period of time and hold a stronger
belief in medical cure; they wanted a cure. 22% of low back pain
and 16% of neck pain patients wished to
stop their pain from returning and were
more likely to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients sought to keep their pain from
getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wanted
temporary relief of their pain. These last two groups of patients tended to have experienced pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a difference from person to person
depending on their experience that chiropractors and other
healthcare providers really should recognize. (1)
Such patient expectations are written to predict
short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study detailed
that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more apt
to report an improvement at the fourth visit.
(2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare
providers working together
can boost low back pain patients’ odds of
relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care relies on
patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be taken into account. And when it
comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is essential. (4) At Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. the
Auburn back pain patient is at the center of everything
we do.
CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he details
his story of being a back pain patient desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
helped him.
Schedule your Auburn chiropractic visit with
your Auburn back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.