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New Roads Chiropractic Manipulation for Back Pain Vs Benzodiazepines

Back pain appears. Back pain lingers occasionally. Back pain leaves for while or longer or shorter! Whatever its path, back pain makes itself an annoyance to its sufferer who just wants it to go away. The hope of a fast fixing pill is strong. The desire for relief is lasting. Surgical versus non-surgical, drug versus non-drug, conservative versus more invasive methods are available. New Roads Chiropractic Center offers conservative, non-drug, non-surgical, chiropractic care for the relief of New Roads back pain and neck pain that satisfies!

RADICULAR BACK PAIN CARE

Radicular low back pain – radiating-down-the-leg back pain – is often the most annoying. Researchers noted that chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy and benzodiazepine drugs were commonly prescribed. They analzed how spinal manipulation influenced the use of the benzodiazepine drugs in patients aged 18-49 years old. The odds of receiving a prescription for a benzodiazepine were significantly less for those receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation. The risk did go up 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 did not have anything to do with the risk. The study concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation care significantly reduced 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 New Roads back pain sufferers deliberating where to go for their back pain: New Roads Chiropractic Center!

OPIOID PRESCRIPTION FOR BACK PAIN

Back pain sufferers with acute onset, preliminary episode of back pain often go to the emergency room for help. Opioid prescribing in this setting was documented as not always following clinical guidelines which recommended limited use. In 2016, researchers reported that such early opioid prescribing for uncomplicated acute low back pain increased the long-term use of opioids and the cost of care part from the fact that there are an assortment of adverse outcomes linked to opioid use. (2) New Roads back pain sufferers finding their way to New Roads Chiropractic Center find other non-drug care that is recommended for relief of back pain.

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 these recommendations were followed showed some eye-opening facts. A Gallup poll of 5377 random people gave rise to 545 low back pain sufferers who went to a medical doctor in the past year. They were asked what type of care their medical doctor recommended and if they followed it. 96% said they received a recommendation of one or more pain treatments. 81% said their medical doctor advised 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 advised. Follow through on the recommendations by patients ranged from 68% for acupuncture to 94% for NSAIDs. (5) New Roads Chiropractic Center provides safe, gentle spinal manipulation as recommended by the guidelines and encourages follow through with care.

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

Make your New Roads chiropractic appointment soon. Back pain - be it new or old, sudden or lingering – may well find relief in recommended spinal manipulation care at New Roads Chiropractic Center.

New Roads Chiropractic Center delivers recommended spinal manipulation which may help reduce the need for benzodiazepines. 
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