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Vancouver Disc Centers Offers Realistic Back Pain Relief Expectations

Let’s be honest. You want 100% relief of your Vancouver back pain and have it never return. Heck, you did not want it to occur in the first place! Well, Vancouver Disc Centers wants that for you, too. But reality gets in the way. The research gets published. Realistic expectations are described. Documented treatment outcomes guide you and Vancouver Disc Centers as we travel together toward healing and improved quality of life with back pain.

MEDICAL CLINICAL EXPECTATION

Medicine today reports 30% minimal clinical improvement as good enough to warrant the use of a treatment approach. (1) The “minimal clinically important difference” is a marker of the value of treatment. In a large review of studies, the relative percent was found to be 32%. (2) “Good” outcome of medical primary care for sciatica and leg pain was only 30% reduction in disability. 55% of patients were improved at one year. (1) Another researcher group stated that a 20 point move on a 100 point scale is a good outcome.  A modification of 19% on an Oswestry pain scale and 2 points on a 10 points visual analogue scale is considered successful reduction in pain for a patient with continued postoperative spine pain. (3) Vancouver Disc Centers knows Vancouver back pain patients desire more relief than that. Setting up realistic expectations from the beginning enhances the chances of a satisfactory outcome for our Vancouver chiropractic patients.

CHIROPRACTIC ROLE IN BACK PAIN RELIEF

Chiropractic is often classified as alternative medicine. Chiropractic seeks to take care of the source of spine-related pain with spine treatment, exercise, nutrition, etc., whereas allopathic medicine focuses on the removal of the offending cause of pain by drug or invasive means. (4) One study comparing the two approaches demonstrated that at 2 months of care, older adults with lumbar spine stenosis treated with manual therapy and exercise improved better than medical care and group exercise. (5) Another paper about older adults with back pain stated 50% improvement in back pain and 43% in disability after 2 years of care. The honest truth: fewer than 20% of these patients had complete resolution of pain and disability, but they were better. (6) Vancouver Disc Centers assists many Vancouver back pain and stenosis patients honestly set realistic expectations for clinical improvement of their back pain conditions utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.

CLINICAL OUTCOMES WITH COX® TECHNIC

Cox® Technic has always strived for at least 50% relief within 30 days before trying another treatment protocol or ordering more advanced imaging tests or referral for surgical consultation (as long as there is no sign of progressive neurological deficit or caudal equina syndrome/change in bowel or urinary function which would necessitate a more immediate action). (7) For years, 50% didn’t seem like enough. Today, it’s amazing relief compared with the new medical and surgical expectation of 20% to 30% relief. One more recent study documents even more relief with Cox® Technic: Spinal stenosis patients improved in pain by 76% and disability by 73%. (8) How might such improvement come? Horizontal traction was shown much more effective in increasing disc height of lower lumbar discs. (9) Cox® Technic distraction manipulation was found to enlarge the area by 28%. (10) Vancouver Disc Centers knows many Vancouver back pain patients whose 20% relief of pain excited them as it permitted them to walk in the park or go to the grocery store or play with the grandkids.

Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Wanda Lopez on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson whose patient was overjoyed just being able to take a walk in Central Park without pain.

CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers

Schedule your next chiropractic appointment at Vancouver Disc Centers today. We will be honest. We’ll discuss treatment outcome expectations with you. Vancouver Disc Centers is on your side and committed to helping you get the Vancouver back pain relief you want.

Vancouver Disc Centers treats back pain patients who want 100% relief of pain and gently tempers those expectations to assure them of improved quality of life. 
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