Spinal manipulation and back pain go hand in hand. Into
whose hands? Chiropractors’, most commonly! A new report drew
the attention of Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre as it explains the
current situation of spinal manipulation delivery. Your
Toronto chiropractor strives to be your
spinal manipulation healthcare provider, your back pain specialist, in
Toronto.
PROVIDERS OF SPINAL MANIPULATION
Medicare patients are older.
They encounter spine issues like back
pain and neck pain due to spinal stenosis. What’s
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 known for their delivery
of spinal manipulation. Medicare sees
it, too. A new study of the clinicians who give
spinal manipulation tried to discover 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 treated anywhere
from 20 back pain sufferers out of 100,000 population in one state to
260 out of 100,000 in another state. Not every location has enough chiropractors. Other spinal manipulation providers care
for 1 in 100,000 to 8 in 100,000. Spinal manipulation clinicians are sought.
Sadly, the number of Medicare-active chiropractors fell
from 47,102 in 2007 to 45,543 in 2015. Other types of clinicians
who provide spinal manipulation increased from 700 to
1441. Even though chiropractors are the largest group of
spinal manipulation providers to Medicare beneficiaries, the general
supply of them is decreasing while the supply of
non-chiropractors providing spinal manipulation is growing.
(1) Developer of Cox® Technic, Dr. James Cox recalls Dr. Joseph
Janse, president of the National College of Chiropractic for 38 years and founder
of the Council for Chiropractic Education that set up
federal accreditation for chiropractic, always reminded
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 include
evidence-based treatment techniques into the teaching curriculum of chiropractors
of the future. A recent survey of faculty at
a chiropractic school discovered that 81% of them were trained
in diversified technique and 52% in Cox® Technic. Most of the faculty concurred
that diversified (93%), Cox (89%), Thompson (74%), SOT (54%) and Activator
(52%) techniques would be valuable techniques for their future chiropractors to
be taught via elective courses. Nearly all, 96%, of
the survey responders felt preclinical technique
courses were a beneficial idea. 81% reported that they
thought elective technique courses were valuable. (2) Certainly,
exposure to well-documented and researched techniques in chiropractic school is
important to set up a future chiropractor’s
foundation for a productive clinical practice in terms of relieving
the pain of spine pain patients. Grounding the choice of which
techniques to incorporate into the curriculum on those that have
the best evidence behind them is important. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre appreciates
all the research documentation – biomechanical and clinical – behind the Cox®
Technic used in this Toronto chiropractic clinic.
CONTACT Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Katrina Wieland on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr.
Michael Johnson as she illustrates how the Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management helped ease low back pain for this military veteran.
Schedule your next Toronto
chiropractic appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre now. Entrust
your back pain and neck pain into the hands of your chiropractor at
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre who performs spinal manipulation every day, follows the research and protocols for safe, gentle, and pain alleviating
treatment based on research evidence. We look forward to seeing you!