"I don't want to be on back pain disability. I want to work, but my low back pain is so bad."Back pain may impede your ability to work as well as enjoy life. Not only do you suffer with pain, but you can't pay bills, help around the house, take care of yourself let alone your family. Back pain cannot stop your life like that. It just can't. Apple Country Chiropractic understands and has an evidence-based, research-documented, non-surgical treatment option to help.
Work Related Back Injury
Worker Compensation is well-known in the workplace. It pays for care when a worker is injured at work. Many statistics can be collected from work comp files as documentation of care is strictly required in the lower back pain population of patients, but the hardships that surround an injury or low back pain that remove the opportunity to work and participate in life as usual are not as well detailed. So we focus on the statistics which point to what works -
and doesn't work - in dealing with low back pain and successfully returning these back pain sufferers back to work which hopefully translates to their improved quality of life. A
treatment plan designed with you at Apple Country Chiropractic can lead the way.
Surgical Vs. Non-Surgical Care of Lower Back Pain in Work Comp Patients
Work-related non-specific low back pain patients taken care of by physical therapists or medical physicians reportedly have higher disability recurrence than such patients treated by chiropractors or no doctor at all. chiropractic treated low back pain patients have lower disability recurrence rates. (1)
Worker Compensation management of lower back pain that included lumbar fusion surgery for the diagnoses of disc degeneration, disc herniation, and/or radiculopathy (pain that extends down an extremity like leg pain) is associated with a significant increase in
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Surgical |
Non-surgical |
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Permanent disability rates |
11% |
2% |
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Opiate drug use
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41% increase
(76% continued use after surgery) |
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Work loss |
1140 days |
316 days |
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Return to work status |
26% |
67% |
What to do for Low Back Pain Relief to Keep Working?
Researchers declare that spinal manipulation for chronic non-specific low back pain is effective for pain relief. Further, they propose that maintenance spinal manipulation sessions after the initial intensive sessions of spinal manipulation to obtain long-term benefit because more improvement was noted in pain and disability scores. (3)
In a randomized control trial for acute mechanical low back pain, chiropractic spinal manipulation is associated with significantly greater improvement over usual care by family physicians. (4) In Williamson Apple Country Chiropractic's chiropractic spinal manipulation may relieve your low back pain and work together with your family physician as desired.
Compared to commonly used interventions in Williamson and other areas for low back pain relief like drugs, education, exercise and physical modalities, 5 to 10 sessions of spinal manipulation over two to four weeks achieve equal or superior improvement in pain and function for low back pain sufferers. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic follows the 50% Rule in the Cox Technic system of spine care: office visits for low back pain treatment are determined by your response to care. Upon 50% relief of pain measured subjectively (your input) and objectively (clinical tests), your treatment visits are reduced by 50%. Apple Country Chiropractic looks to 50% relief of pain in the first 30 days of care or sooner. Apple Country Chiropractic's goal is to return you to your active life and employment as rapidly as possible and support you if you are able to or choose to continue to work while under chiropractic care which, as a matter of fact, many patients do.
Apple Country Chiropractic's Cox Technic Spinal Manipulation
Whether you are injured at work or sport, spinal manipulation is increasingly acknowledged and even endorsed as a non-surgical form of care for relief of
lower back pain. In Williamson Apple Country Chiropractic offers spinal manipulation in the form of gentle, effective
Cox Technic flexion distraction and spinal decompression. Cox Technic is documented to drop intradiscal pressures to as low as -192mmHG and open the area of the spinal canal by up to 28%. (6,7).
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