Painful Spines Respond to Non-Surgical Care like Chiropractic

Guidelines for back pain care recommend non-surgical care approaches like spinal manipulation. So who delivers non-surgical care? A recent study just stated that “Chiropractic is one of the largest manual therapy professions in the US and internationally.” (1) Yes! Chiropractors like your Nashua chiropractor at Moriarty Chiropractic relish that role. Your Nashua chiropractor assists Nashua back pain and neck pain patients be alleviated of the pain and enhance their quality of life.

The latest guideline for non-surgical treatment for recent onset back and/or leg pain recommends patient education (including a talk about treatment outcome), exercise (advice to keep active) and manual therapy, not routine imaging, targeted treatment, extraforaminal glucocorticoid injection, paracetamol, NSAIDs and opioids. (2) Chiropractic offers all three!

24% of US adults seek out chiropractic care in their lifetime. 8.4% of US adults got chiropractic care in the past year. (1) Why do not more patients seek chiropractic care? The back pain care guidelines drawn up by groups like the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society call for non-surgical methods like spinal manipulation. (3) Even the physical therapists are upset! “Although therapies delivered by PTs are promoted as a first-line treatment for low back pain, PT referral rates remain low.” Only 10.1% of primary care provider visits for low back pain resulted in a physical therapy referral. If a patient were insured by Medicaid or Medicare, that percent was even lower. Where do these low back pain and leg pain patients go? What do they do about their low back pain and leg pain sciatica? They received opioid prescriptions more and more. (4) Your Nashua chiropractor proposes a non-surgical, non-drug way to pain relief.

But what inspires a visit to a chiropractor like your Nashua chiropractor? Spine pain. 63% for back pain and 30.2% for neck pain. (That sounds correct for Moriarty Chiropractic, too. Our Nashua chiropractic patients view us as the Nashua back and neck pain specialists!)  Additionally, adults over 30 and those with spine pain were more likely to consult a chiropractor in the last year. 23% of the chiropractic patients also had a prescription for their back pain. 35% of them used over the counter medications for the issue which they were seeing the chiropractor. 63.8% thought the combined care for their spinal pain – medical and chiropractic – was helpful. (1) Your Nashua chiropractor is ready to share care! Moriarty Chiropractic is ready to collaborate with your primary care physician whenever possible.

Schedule your Nashua chiropractic visit today. Share the name of your primary care physician. We are all with you and want the same thing: non-surgical pain relief as called for by the latest back pain care guidelines and better quality of life for you, our shared Nashua back pain patient or neck pain patient.