Georgetown Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report piqued the attention of Dr. Butwell as it explains the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Georgetown chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Georgetown.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They meet spine issues like back pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What’s the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically delivers the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are today. Chiropractors are still most commonly recognized for their providing spinal manipulation. Medicare sees 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 recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They found that 97% to 98% of the spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. They treated 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 declined 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 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 founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education that founded federal accreditation for chiropractic, always quoted to the “young doctors” - as he called 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 found 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 deemed preclinical technique courses were a beneficial 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 successful clinical practice in terms of easing 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 key. Dr. Butwell welcomes all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic used in this Georgetown 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.
Make your next Georgetown chiropractic appointment with Dr. Butwell now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Dr. Butwell who performs spinal manipulation every day, keeps track of the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
