Auburn Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report piqued the attention of Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. as it describes the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Auburn chiropractor strives to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Auburn.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older. They meet conditions like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What is the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically gives 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 providing spinal manipulation. Medicare sees it as well. A new study of the clinicians who give 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 served 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 desired. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors fell from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation increased from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general supply of them is falling while the supply of non-chiropractors offering spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education which established federal accreditation for chiropractic, always quoted to 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 incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A new survey of faculty at a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were trained in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator (52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to be taught via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders felt preclinical technique courses were a good idea. 81% felt 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 easing the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is important. Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Auburn 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 relieve low back pain for this military veteran.
Schedule your next Auburn chiropractic appointment with Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. today. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!
