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Wilson Family Chiropractic Offers Options to Opioids for Pain Relief

Opioids. Back Pain. Treatment Options. Chiropractic has a role in managing and relieving pain that should not be overlooked. Primary care physicians do not feel much confidence treating musculoskeletal pain. (1) Family practitioners are the largest prescribers of opioids. (2) Meanwhile, who takes care of 40% of pain patients? Chiropractors! (1) Your Millville chiropractor at Wilson Family Chiropractic treats many pain patients and eases a great deal of Millville back pain often with no opioids.

STATISTICS ON OPIOIDS FOR PAIN

These statistics are founded on a huge study of 478,981 freshly diagnosed, “opiate-naïve” patients who start taking opiates for pain relief. (2)

  • 40.4% of pain patients received opioid prescriptions originally within a year of pain while only 4% met the requirement for long-term use.
  • Family practice doctors are the most usual first prescribers of opiates for pain whose risk of prescribing these early in the pain process is 24.4% while those patients then have a 2% risk of long-term, continued opiate use.  
  • Patients who look for care from emergency medicine doctors (43.1%) or urgent care facility (40.8%) are most certainly to be prescribed opiates early in their pain cycle.
  • Patients diagnosed initially by a pain management doctor or physical medicine and rehab provider have a higher risk of long-term opioid use by 6.7% and 3.4%, respectively.

Wilson Family Chiropractic welcomes pain patients to seek Millville chiropractic care first!

PHYSICIANS WHO TREAT PAIN

Primary care physicians (52%), pain physicians (2%), chiropractors (40%), acupuncturists (7%) treat chronic pain patients. Primary care physicians are the least probable physicians to feel confident treating musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. (1) Chiropractors like yours at Wilson Family Chiropractic confidently use non-drug management and/or co-management with other providers for the pain relief and pain control for Millville back pain patients.

CHIROPRACTIC’S PLACE IN PAIN CARE

Wilson Family Chiropractic speculates why chiropractors are not more immediately considered in the process for Millville pain relief, particularly Millville back pain relief. Chiropractic services include spinal manipulation (one of the top recommended types of care for back pain by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians (3)), exercise, and nutrition. What stops some medical doctors from considering nutrition? A recent article states the reason in its title: “Nutrition: Push For Doctors To Learn Nutrition: Many Graduate Without Training.” It also shares that patients believe their medical doctor understands nutrition. (4) And that is fine if healthcare professionals coordinated care along their lines of expertise, acknowledging that each has a role in the care of the pain patient and has the best welfare of the patient at heart. Chiropractors are proficient in non-surgical and non-drug care of pain, back pain, and spine pain.

COORDINATING CARE

Knowing that a healthcare provider’s profession influences his/her treatment recommendations, guidelines for Millville back pain patient care are developed in an attempt to apply the expertise fully. Interdisciplinary care challenges differences among professions and their recommendation standards so that a patient gets a consistent therapy message with current treatment guidelines. Activity messages do vary by profession though: nurses were more restrictive in their recommendations of activity; physicians were more consistent with guidelines; physiotherapists recommended much more activity but less work activity than physicians. (5) Wilson Family Chiropractic collaborates with other local Millville healthcare providers for patient care, appreciating their expertise and contribution to Millville back pain patients’ return to activities of daily living that make each day better.

CONTACT Wilson Family Chiropractic

Schedule a Millville chiropractic appointment with Wilson Family Chiropractic for interdisciplinary care of your pain. Your Millville chiropractor is ready and willing to work with fellow Millville healthcare providers and to offer you options on how to manage your back pain beyond and/or alongside opioid drug care.

 
Millville back pain and chronic pain often find relief at Wilson Family Chiropractic without opioids. 
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