Montreal Spinal Manipulation is Delivered Most by Chiropractors
Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report piqued the attention of Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic as it explains the current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your Montreal chiropractor endeavors to be your spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in Montreal.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are of the older persuasion. They meet spine issues like back pain and neck pain due to 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 beginning professional years. Some massage therapists and physical therapists do today. Chiropractors remain most commonly recognized for their delivery of spinal manipulation. Medicare recognizes it, too. A recent study of the clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation tried to find out more about this since spinal manipulation was a recommended first-line treatment for low back pain. They uncovered 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 used. Unfortunately, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors fell from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other kinds of clinicians who deliver spinal manipulation grew from 700 to 1441. Even though chiropractors are the majority of spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the overall supply of them is falling while the supply of non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is growing. (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 told 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 incorporate evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of future chiropractors. A recent survey of faculty at one chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were skilled in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty agreed 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 deemed 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 set up a future chiropractor’s foundation for a successful clinical practice in terms of relieving the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which techniques to teach on those that have the best evidence behind them is key. Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic appreciates all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox® Technic delivered in this Montreal chiropractic clinic.
CONTACT Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she explains how the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped relieve low back pain for this military veteran.
Make your next Montreal chiropractic appointment with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic now. Entrust your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating treatment based on research evidence. See you soon!
