When I check into a hotel for a conference, the conversation
often sounds like this:
Front desk staff: “So what are you here for?”
Me: “I’m a chiropractor from Toronto attending a
meeting.”
Front desk staff: “Oh! My neck is
killing me!”
Your Toronto chiropractor welcomes
this and could talk back pain and neck pain all day long!
Toronto chiropractic patients at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre certainly know
this. Your Toronto chiropractor enjoys
the reputation as the Toronto back pain specialist.
Being a primary spine practitioner is so stimulating and engaging!
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows back pain and neck pain, is a specialty
clinic for spine pain patients, and is not shy
in the least about letting everyone know in
Toronto.
BEING THE PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONER
You have heard of the Gallup Poll. A consultant
for Gallup partnered with the Palmer College of Chiropractic for
a study that found that 78% of American adults would rather use a non-drug option over a prescription medication to cope with
pain like low back or neck pain. Those same adults believed
physical therapy and chiropractic care as quite effective and safe
when compared to pain medications. Aaron Carroll MD writes for the New York Times, and
in a blog post called “For Bad Backs, It’s Time to Rethink Biases about
Chiropractors,” he stressed how bad the opioid crisis is in
the US and that evidence-based non-drug methods like
spinal manipulation are practical
alternatives. (1) Chiropractic identity researchers concluded
that chiropractic is viewed by society as a profession of health
care providers who are experts in spine care as their
education, scope of practice, and educational accrediting and testing involve spine care. (2) In one study 61.4% of US adults expressed
that chiropractic care successfully
relieved neck and back pain. 52.6% said
chiropractors were trustworthy. (3) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre gets
this. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre sees that Toronto back pain
and neck pain patients find relieving help with the
Toronto chiropractic care and then count on
Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre to point them in other healthy approaches to
control their back pain conditions and enhance their health and
spine to prevent future adverse health and/or spinal
pain conditions.
BENEFITS OF PRIMARY SPINE PRACTITIONERS
Specially educated to care for patients with
spinal disease, primary spine practitioners play many responsibilities:
diagnose, rule out serious pathology (cancer, fracture, infection, etc.), give
evidence-based care like spinal manipulation, manual therapy, rehab/exercise,
education about the condition, counseling to help the back pain sufferer accept
the condition and its outcome expectations as well as commit to its treatment plan, and direct
all aspects of care (imaging, injections, surgery if/when
needed). (4) It is a big job with plenty
of responsibility! It is truly the role
your Toronto chiropractor embraces! What do
Toronto back pain sufferers wants? Consumers desire
access to non-drug therapies delivered by spine care
experts like chiropractors first. Such access helps
in a few ways. One is increasing the value of
spine care delivery. Two is helping address the primary care
shortage. (1,5) Three is reducing the cost of care. (6) Four is
possibly curbing the opioid epidemic. The American
College of Physicians’ recommendations for back pain sufferers specifically state
that opioids are the last option behind non-pharmacological treatment options
like spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, etc. (7) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre is
here to do its part to help.
CONTACT YOUR Toronto SPINE CARE SPECIALIST
Listen to this PODCAST
about how a chiropractic back pain specialist trained in Cox Technic helped a
patient who doesn’t want back surgery helped him avoid one.
Schedule your next Toronto chiropractic
appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre to explore
the benefit of having the Toronto back pain specialist taking care
of your back pain and spine pain without medications in most
cases.