Pensacola Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines

Back pain comes. Back pain hangs around sporadically. Back pain leaves for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its trajectory, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to leave. The hope of a quick relieving pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive approaches are out there. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of Pensacola back pain and neck pain that satisfies!

RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE

Radicular low back pain – the back pain that radiates down the leg – is many times the most irritating. Researchers observed that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were commonly prescribed. They questioned how spinal manipulation affected the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The risk of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly lower for those receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did rise a bit as the back pain stayed: 3 months .56, 6 months .61, and 12 months .67. The researchers also questioned whether a patient’s preference to avoid prescription medications affected this. Their sensitivity analysis didn’t have anything to do with the odds. The study closed by saying that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly decreased the odds of a prescription for and influenced the use of benzodiazepine for radicular low back pain. The patients in the study who began with the chiropractic manipulation path were more likely to get published guideline-directed care for benzodiazepine prescription. (1) This is positive news for Pensacola back pain sufferers wondering where to go for their back pain: Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center!

OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN

Back pain sufferers with acute onset, preliminary episode of back pain often go to the emergency room for assistance. Opioid prescribing in the ED was reported as not always following clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. Researchers back in 2016 reported that such early opioid prescribing for uncomplicated acute low back pain built up the long-term use of opioids as well as the cost of care part from the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes associated with opioid use. (2) Pensacola back pain sufferers who come to Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center find other non-drug care that is recommended for back pain relief.

RECOMMENDED BACK PAIN TREATMENT OPTIONS

The American College of Physicians published recommendations for care of low back pain in 2009. (3) Spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain in adults. 97%-98% of spinal manipulation providers were chiropractors. (4) A 2021 follow-up report on whether the recommendations were followed revealed some interesting facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people resulted in 545 low back pain sufferers who visited a medical doctor in the past 12 months. They were asked what type of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed that care. 96% said they were given a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor recommended drug and non-drug therapies. 76% - NSAIDs and acetaminophen. 79% - self-care treatments. 37% - massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation. 60% - physical therapy. Nearly 66% said prescriptions (benzodiazepine, opioids, gabapentin, Neurontin, cortisone injections) were recommended. Follow through on the recommendations by patients varied from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.

CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Robert Patterson on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the relief with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for low back pain patients.

Schedule your Pensacola chiropractic appointment soon. Back pain - be it acute or chronic, sudden or lingering – may well find its match in recommended spinal manipulation care at Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center.

Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center provides recommended spinal manipulation which may help reduce the need for benzodiazepines. 
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