“I do not want this pain to get
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. The goal of healthcare policy is mostly
curative. Many chronic pain patients know otherwise. The Novelli Wellness Center knows
otherwise. We all want relief and some hint of control
over how and when back pain and neck pain appear and
disappear. Chiropractic care is for these patients.
The Novelli Wellness Center’s chiropractic care looks at 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 episodes with either condition acknowledge
this, too. They align their healthcare goals with their
experience: there is not 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. The Novelli Wellness Center is the
Buffalo, NY chiropractic home for back and neck pain
patients. The Novelli Wellness Center is home of the Buffalo, NY back pain
specialist.
PATIENT EXPECTATIONS: HOW THEY INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY’RE MET
Chiropractic back pain specialists know their back pain and
neck pain sufferers well. A newly released study of
1614 patients suffering with chronic low back pain (885) and
chronic neck pain (729) found their goals for
chiropractic care of their conditions. About a third of them wanted the pain to go away permanently
and were more likely to have suffered with
pain for a briefer period of time and hold a deeper
belief in medical cure; they wanted a cure. 22% of low back pain
and 16% of neck pain patients sought to
stop their pain from returning and tended to have lower pain levels. 14% of low back and 12% of neck pain
patients wanted to stop 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 experienced 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 written 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 4th visit.
(2) Certainly, having an interdisciplinary team of healthcare
providers working together
can boost low back pain patients’ likelihoods 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 taken into account. And as for non-pharmacological treatment of low back pain, active patient
involvement is vital. (4) At The Novelli Wellness Center the
Buffalo, NY back pain patient is at the center of everything
we do.
CONTACT The Novelli Wellness Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Ed Hutter on The Back
Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson in which he shares
his history of being a back pain patient desiring
pain relief and how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management
eased his pain.
Schedule your Buffalo, NY chiropractic visit with
your Buffalo, NY back pain specialist today. Bring your expectations of
care. We’ll make a treatment plan together to meet them.