Hey guys, it’s Dr. Courtney from Durrum Chiropractic and family wellness. Today we’re going to talk about low back pain. And just how big of a problem is low back pain? Well, I’ll tell you, it’s a huge problem.
How Common is Low Back Pain?
The research shows that 50% of Americans will suffer from low back pain during their lifetime. In fact, at this very moment, 35% of you, that’s one in three of you are currently suffering with low back pain. So yeah, it’s a big deal affecting a major portion of our country. Now, what about the cost of low back pain, you’re really just not gonna believe the expense and the cost of low back pain. Research shows that $50 billion per year is spent treating low back pain. That’s a crazy number. But that’s the direct cost medical expense of low back pain, the indirect cost of low back pain is more than $100 billion. That’s crazy. Okay, this is the indirect cause that’s also called presenteeism. This is where employees are showing up for work, they’re present, they’re doing their best to do their job. But either because they’re suffering from low back pain, or maybe they’re under the influence of some sort of drug or medication to treat their lower back pain, they’re unable to perform at 100%. That’s known again as presenteeism. And we don’t want that for you either.
The Importance of NOT Relying on Medications for Your Pain
Now, we also know that many folks when they’re suffering for low back pain, will reach for some sort of drugs or medication, opioids being one of those, and we all know how costly this opioid epidemic is in our nation, not just in the dollars, but in the quality of life and the relationships that are lost due to these just terrible opioid addictions. And keep in mind, opioids aren’t getting to the root cause of the problem. They’re simply managing the pain so that you can continue on some level to function on a daily basis, but certainly not functioning at 100%. Now, one of the other treatments for lower back pain is often surgery. And the research studies show that when you’re suffering from low back pain, and acute incident of low back pain, and the first physician that you see as a medical doctor, in 20% of those cases, if you end up in surgery, now on the contrary to that those who are suffering from acute low back pain, that actually seek out and find a chiropractor, to take care of their problem with the lower back pain, less than 5% of those who end up in surgery.
Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain Reduces the Need for Surgeries
Now in our office and our clinic, and I’ve been practicing for over 20 years now, we’ve seen over 6000 individual people, only three of those. So that is less than 1% of the people we have ever seen in the last 20 years have ended up having to resort to some sort of low back surgery. And in all three of those cases, these were people who had been suffering for decades had neglected to take care of their spine, their nervous system. And it had eventually deteriorated to a point that the low back surgery was actually necessary. I’m also proud to say that all three of those people, even though they did have to resort to surgery, are now currently under gear because they understand that taking care of the spine, taking care of the nervous system, and being proactive moving forward. This can help them actually avoid any future surgeons, because we start they certainly don’t want more surgeries. In addition to that, oftentimes surgeries are unsuccessful. And those folks continued to suffer, or they had repeat surgeries after them cry. So we would like to avoid that if at all possible. All right. If you’re interested in in our offense, with chiropractic care, we like to get to the root cause of your problem, find out what’s actually causing the problem. We know that that could be something with your lumbar spine, it could be the sacrum, the ilium. It could even be a lumbar disc. And many folks don’t realize that with the current techniques and tools that we use for a Johnston, treating lower back pain can be really gentle can be a very easy process and just just wildly successful.
We are Here to Help!
We’d love to check you out, see if quite possibly there’s something that we can do to help you and help you avoid these other avenues. But most of all, help you get better outcomes in the future. We want to see you get back to live in the life that you love. So click on the link below. We have a link below that will take you to a new patient special where you can get in and we’ll do an exam, consultation and X rays. We’re going to get to the root cause and we’ll let you know whether or not we can help you. I hope to see you soon!