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Improve Your Chance to Recover After a Back Injury

Posted on 2012-01-16 10:32:39

Want to improve your chances to recover after a back injury?

See a chiropractor FIRST for a back injury.

People w

ho visit a Chiropractor as their first healthcare provider after a back injury have a SIGNIFICANTLY lower propability of remaining disabled 1 year after the accident.

Tampa Chiropractor, Dr Scott Barry shared this information about a 2008 award winning study that adressed 1885 workers who reported claims for back injuries.

Judith Turner, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, lead the research that revealed several key risk factors that stacked the odds against an injured worker’s ability to return to work a full year later.

Turner found that workers who began their care with a chiropractor had a distinct reduction of odds for chronic disability. This finding surprised the researchers. They were expecting,that occupational medicine physicians would be the clear leaders. “In fact, if anything,” Turner said, “[the occupational medicine physicians] had somewhat worse outcomes.”

Those outcomes according to the study, found 21 percent of back-injured workers who sought care with an occupational medicine physician first found themselves to be chronically disabled after one year. Primary care physicians scored at 12 percent. But of those seeking a chiropractor first for their work-related back injury, only 5 percent were disabled at the one year mark.

“That at least raises the possibility,” Turner said, “that chiropractic care was more effective in improving pain and disability or promoting return to work.”

If you are injured in a car accident, fall or other back injury see a chiropractor first. They specialize in injuries to the back and spine wellness.

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