Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into
whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report attracted
the attention of Aaron Chiropractic Clinic as it describes the
current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your
Fort Wayne chiropractor puts forth effort to be your
spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in
Fort Wayne.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older.
They meet spine issues like back
pain and neck pain as a result of spinal stenosis. What’s
the first line of treatment suggested? Spinal manipulation.
Which profession historically delivers the majority of
spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy provided SMT more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and
physical therapists do now. Chiropractors are
still most commonly recognized for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes
it as well. A recent study of the clinicians who give
spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal
manipulation was a suggested first-line treatment for low
back pain. They uncovered 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 that
many chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care
for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought.
Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors decreased
from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians
who provide spinal manipulation increased from 700 to
1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of
spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall
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 organizer
of the Council for Chiropractic Education that 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 include
evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A new survey of faculty at
a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled
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% reported that they
thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Surely,
exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is
vital to establish a future chiropractor’s
foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving
the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which
techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have
the best evidence behind them is important. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic welcomes
all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox®
Technic delivered in this Fort Wayne 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 describes how the Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped reduce low back pain for this military veteran.
Schedule your next Fort Wayne
chiropractic appointment with Aaron Chiropractic Clinic soon. Entrust
your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at
Aaron Chiropractic Clinic who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating
treatment based on research evidence. See you
soon!