Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc Offers Realistic Back Pain Relief Expectations

Let’s be honest. You want 100% relief of your Fort Wayne back pain and have it never return. Heck, you didn’t want it to befall in the first place! Well, Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc desires that for you, too. But reality interferes. The research gets published. Realistic expectations are documented. Standard treatment outcomes lead you and Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc as we move together toward healing and improved quality of life with back pain.

MEDICAL CLINICAL EXPECTATION

Medicine today reports 30% minimal clinical improvement as good enough to merit the use of a treatment approach. (1) The “minimal clinically important difference” is a marker of the helpfulness of treatment. In an extensive review of studies, the relative percent was revealed as 32%. (2) “Good” outcome of medical primary care for sciatica and leg pain was just 30% reduction in disability. 55% of patients were improved at one year. (1) Another researcher group reported that a 20 point move on a 100 point scale is a good outcome.  A change of 19% on an Oswestry pain scale and 2 points on a 10 points visual analogue scale is considered successful reduction in pain for a patient with continued postoperative spine pain. (3) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc knows Fort Wayne back pain patients desire more relief than that. Establishing realistic expectations from the start of treatment enhances the chances of a satisfactory outcome for our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients.

CHIROPRACTIC ROLE IN BACK PAIN RELIEF

Chiropractic is often classified as alternative medicine. Chiropractic seeks to address the source of spine-related pain with spine treatment, exercise, nutrition, etc., whereas allopathic medicine seeks to remove the offending cause of pain by drug or invasive methods. (4) One study comparing the two approaches showed that at 2 months of care, older adults with lumbar spine stenosis treated with manual therapy and exercise fared better than medical care and group exercise. (5) Another paper about older adults with back pain stated 50% improvement in back pain and 43% in disability after 2 years of care. The honest truth: fewer than 20% of these patients had complete resolution of pain and disability, but they were better. (6) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc helps many Fort Wayne back pain and stenosis patients honestly establish realistic expectations for clinical improvement of their back pain conditions using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

CLINICAL OUTCOMES WITH COX® TECHNIC

Cox® Technic has always strived for at least 50% relief within 30 days before doing another treatment protocol or arranging appointments for more advanced imaging tests or referral for surgical consultation (as long as there is no evidence of progressive neurological deficit or caudal equina syndrome/change in bowel or urinary function which would necessitate a more immediate action). (7) For years, 50% didn’t seem like enough. Today, it is amazing relief compared with the new medical and surgical expectation of 20% to 30% relief. One more recent study documents even more relief with Cox® Technic: Spinal stenosis patients improved in pain by 76% and disability by 73%. (8) How might such improvement come? Horizontal traction was reported to be much more effective in enlarging disc height of lower lumbar discs. (9) Cox® Technic distraction manipulation was found to enlarge the area by 28%. (10) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc has cared for many Fort Wayne back pain patients whose 20% relief of pain thrilled them as it permitted them to walk in the park or go to the grocery store or play with the grandkids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Wanda Lopez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose patient was overjoyed just being able to take a walk in Central Park without pain.

CONTACT Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc

Schedule your next chiropractic appointment at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc today. We’ll be honest. We will discuss treatment outcome expectations with you. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc is on your side and committed to helping you realize the Fort Wayne back pain relief you want.