When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation
often goes like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Oxford attending a
meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My spouse
has the worst back pain and pain down the leg!”
Your Oxford chiropractor enjoys
this and could converse about back pain and neck pain forever!
Oxford chiropractic patients at Satterwhite Chiropractic know this for sure. Your Oxford chiropractor welcomes
the reputation as the Oxford back pain specialist.
Being a primary spine practitioner is so stimulating and inviting!
Satterwhite Chiropractic knows back pain and neck pain, is a specialty
clinic for spine pain patients, and isn’t shy
at all about telling everyone in
Oxford.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant
for Gallup teamed up with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for
a study that revealed that 78% of American adults would prefer
to use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to deal with
pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults thought
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 emphasized how bad the opioid crisis is in
the US and that evidence-based non-drug methods like
spinal manipulation are practical
options. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers wrote
that chiropractic is viewed by society as a profession of health
care providers who are specialists in spine care as their
education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing involve spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed
that chiropractic care was successful in caring for neck and back pain. 52.6% believed
chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Satterwhite Chiropractic gets
this. Satterwhite Chiropractic sees that Oxford back pain
and neck pain patients find relieving help with the
Oxford chiropractic care and then rely on
Satterwhite Chiropractic to point them in other healthy approaches to
control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and
spine to avert future unpleasant 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 tasks:
diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), present
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 facets of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when
needed). (4) It is an extensive job with plenty
of responsibility! It is truly the role
your Oxford chiropractor embraces! What do
Oxford back pain sufferers wants? Consumers desire
access to non-drug therapies supplied by spine care
experts like chiropractors initially. Such access benefits
in a few ways. One is improving the value of
spine care delivery. Two is helping deal with the primary care
shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is
potentially curbing the opioid epidemic. The American
College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically state
that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options
like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Satterwhite Chiropractic is
here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Oxford 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 Oxford chiropractic
appointment with Satterwhite Chiropractic to discover
the benefit of having the Oxford back pain specialist caring for your back pain and spine pain without medications in most
cases.