Fort Wayne Back Pain Patients Expect Results from Chiropractic Care

“I do not want this pain to get any 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 varying goals for their pain. Healthcare policy often relates to cure. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic knows otherwise. We all want relief and some trace of control over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic’s chiropractic care examines 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 isn’t always a cure, but there is often control to avert pain episodes and relieving care to get through the pain bouts as fast as possible. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is the Fort Wayne chiropractic home for back and neck pain patients. Aaron Chiropractic Clinic is home of the Fort Wayne 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 recent study of 1614 patients experiencing chronic low back pain (885) and chronic neck pain (729) reported their goals for chiropractic care of their issues. About a third of them wished for the pain to cease forever and tended to have suffered with pain for a shorter time and have a deeper 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 tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain patients wished to keep their pain from getting worse. 31% of back pain and 41% of neck pain patients wished temporary relief of their pain. These last two sets of patients were more likely to have had pain for a longer period of time. Which group do you fall into? Like most humans, there is a discrepancy from person to person contingent on their experience that chiropractors and other healthcare providers need to understand. (1) Such patient expectations are reported to predict short-term outcomes of chiropractic care for low back pain. Another study documented that patients with a high expectation of improvement were 58% more likely to report an improvement at the 4^th appointment. (2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare providers working as a team can boost low back pain patients’ odds of relief. (3) Today, the patient is the center of healthcare. Patient-centered care depends on patient-reported outcomes to tell the story. The patient’s perspective must always be considered. And when it comes to non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient involvement is essential. (4) At Aaron Chiropractic Clinic the Fort Wayne back pain patient is at the center of everything we do.

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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 eased his pain.

Schedule your Fort Wayne chiropractic visit with your Fort Wayne back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of care. We will make a treatment plan together to meet them.