Nevada Back Pain Suffers Seek Chiropractic Care One-third of back pain sufferers seek care from chiropractors instead of physicians - Back pain episodes of care among adults in the United States are usually brief and recur infrequently (within 3 to 5 years). One-third of all patients suffering from back pain choose chiropractors over physicians to treat them, and chiropractors provide 40 percent of primary care for back pain. These are the results of two studies supported in part by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research The researchers examined all insurance claims forms for episodes of patient-specified back pain and identified 1,020 episodes of back pain experienced by 686 different nonelderly persons (22 percent). Of these patients, 26 percent saw a general practitioner, and about 40 percent saw a chiropractor as the first or primary care provider. Patients most likely to choose a chiropractor were white men with a high school education. Geographic site was also important. Patients were more likely to go to a chiropractor than a medical doctor if they lived in Georgetown County, Fitchburg, Franklin County, or Seattle, than if they lived in Dayton or Charleston. General satisfaction with health care and level of pain were not associated with provider choice. About 10 percent of patients initially seeing other providers switched to a chiropractor to receive the majority of their back pain care. Moreover, chiropractors retained a greater proportion (92 percent) of their patients for subsequent episodes of back pain care than did other providers. This coincides with other findings that low back pain patients of chiropractors are more satisfied with their care than those of other providers.   Contact our local chiropractor to help relieve your chronic back pain