Why patients don’t seek care may be revealed in results from a study that interviewed 93 participants over age 65 who were asked about their experience with restricting back pain. Questions probed for beliefs, behaviors, coping mechanisms, emotional effects, and experiences with doctors. The full study results are reported in the journal BMC Geriatrics.1...
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Patients sometimes avoid care because of their doctor
Spinal manipulation and cervical disc herniation
A recent article published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reports findings of a study evaluating treatment costs, pain reduction, and overall improvement for patients with symptomatic cervical disc herniation (1). In this study, patient databases within a European orthopedic/rheumatology university hospital...
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Cost-effectiveness and musculoskeletal chest pain
Researchers recently published results from a study analyzing costs associated with musculoskeletal chest pain.(1) In this study, authors studied participants in Denmark who were candidates for chiropractic care and also reported a primary complaint of acute chest pain. Patients with a cardiac, pulmonary, or...
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Is it neurogenic or vascular claudication?
Intermittent claudication is commonly caused by 2 distinctly different but similarly presenting conditions that can be hard to differentiate clinically: spinal stenosis and vascular insufficiency from peripheral artery disease....
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The art of being a doctor
Research, through inquiry, testing, and discovery provides the scientific basis for what we know as doctors. But what about the art? Even with right evaluation and treatment decisions, care...
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How well can doctors predict which patients respond to treatment?
Evidence suggests that both primary care practitioners and doctors of chiropractic are not highly accurate when predicting the prognosis for patients with low back pain.1,2 Because accurate prognosis is...
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