West Des Moines Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A recent report drew the attention of Executive Chiropractic of Iowa as it details the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your West Des Moines chiropractor puts forth effort to be the spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in West Des Moines.
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 is the first line of treatment recommended? Spinal manipulation. Which profession historically provides the majority of spinal manipulation (SMT) care? Chiropractic. Osteopathy did so more heavily in its early professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists are now. Chiropractors remain most commonly known for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it as well. A new study of the clinicians who use 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 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 declined from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types 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 decreasing while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is rising. (1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox remembers Dr. Joseph Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder of the Council for Chiropractic Education which set up federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded 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 aim to include evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors of the future. A recent survey of faculty at a chiropractic school found that 81% of them were trained 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 educated via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of the survey responders considered preclinical technique courses were a good idea. 81% felt elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly, 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. Basing the choice of which techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have the best evidence behind them is key. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this West Des Moines 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 West Des Moines chiropractic appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and relieving treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!
