Dr. Eric Groteke & Dr. Damon Stafford
Back-2-Life's mission is to help the Tampa bay community feel better and improve their quality of life through affordable conservative care programs that include the most advanced treatment plans and medical equipment.
We are the areas leader in research programs that are designed to improve your quality of care.
Our center has the following attributes;
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Centrally Located
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Easily Accessible
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Friendly yet Professional Staff
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Catering to Patients in Pain
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State of the Art
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Featuring a Full Electronic Health Record System
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Spacious Facility
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Outcomes Driven to Monitor Your Progress
We Empower Our Patients
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Through MSDR Educative Reporting
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Through Monthly Educative Reporting on your condition
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Using MSDr We Treat the Patient to a Specific Number for Optimal Results
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We Integrate Electronic Health Records with an Evidence Based Clinical Decisions Support System to Reduce Medical Errors and Erroneous Costs
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With a Pre-First Visit MSDR Questionnaire Which Creates Improved Education and Reporting on Your Condition so You Have a Better Understanding of It
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We offer Prospective Patients Access to Back-2-Life's Objective Database Regarding the Quality of Care We Plan To Deliver.
Back Pain
The
epidemic of back pain is enormous: It's a
$44 billion industry, the leading injury in industrial accidents;
the cause of disability for people under the age of 45; will strike
90% of all American adults; the second-leading surgical procedure,
and it is getting worse!
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Up to 85% of the US
Population will have Back Pain at some time in their life.
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On any given day 6.5
million people are in bed because of back pain.
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5.4 million Americans are
disabled annually due to back pain.
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An estimated 93 million
workdays are lost each year due to back pain.
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90% of all back pain
resolves in 6-12 weeks.
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5-10% of low back pain
becomes chronic.
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Only 20% of all back
surgeries are successful after 2 years.
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The total number of spine
surgeries in the U.S. approaches 500,000 per year.
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An estimated $45 – 54
billion is spent on the treatment of low back pain per year
How Chiropractic Works?
Spinal adjustments to correct subluxations are what make doctors of chiropractic unique in comparison with any other type of health care professional. The term “adjustment” refers to the specific force chiropractors apply to vertebrae that have abnormal movement patterns or fail to function normally.
The objective of the chiropractic adjustment is to reduce the subluxation, which results in an increased range of motion, reduced nerve irritability, reduced muscle spasm, reduced pain and improved function. The chiropractic adjustment is a quick thrust applied to a vertebra for the purpose of correcting its position, movement or both. Adjustments are often accompanied by an audible release of gas in the spinal joints that sounds like a “crack.” The sound sometimes surprises people the first time they get adjusted, but the sensation is usually relieving. Occasionally, minor discomfort is experienced, especially if the surrounding muscles are in spasm or the person tenses up during the chiropractic procedure. There are times when the audible “cracking” does not occur. This is often due to either significant muscle tightness or the person having a hard time relaxing during their adjustments. Some adjusting techniques are designed to move the spine in a way that does not produce the audible sound at all. Chiropractic is so much more than simply a means of relieving pain.
Ultimately, the goal of receiving adjustments should be to restore the body to its natural state of optimal health. In order to accomplish this, chiropractors can use and recommend a variety of natural healing methods, including adjustments, massage, trigger point therapy, nutrition, exercise rehabilitation, and counseling on lifestyle issues that impact your health. The primary focus is simply to remove those things which interfere with the body’s natural normal healing ability. The adjustment of the spine is the primary objective of a chiropractor. There are some chiropractors who also adjust the extremities and use other forms of physiological therapeutics including the use of electrical stimulation, ultrasound, traction, neuromuscular re-education, and a variety of manual therapies. Increasingly, chiropractors’ offices are becoming full service wellness centers providing a variety of wellness services such as yoga, and pilates. A new trend that chiropractic wellness centers offer is wellness coaching. Some programs offer coaching at the wellness center, while others offer wellness coaching via telephone, email, or online instant messenger in an effort to make it more convenient. Chiropractic wellness centers may offer seminars in a variety of subjects such as spinal alignment, improved posture, and ergonomics, as well as programs on weight management, relaxation, smoking cessation, nutrition, and exercise. Some even offer pre- and post-natal healthy baby programs. The increasing number of chiropractic centers providing extensive wellness programs makes it convenient and affordable for just about anyone to adopt a wellness lifestyle. Chiropractors are doctors who understand that within each of us is an inner intelligence or healthy energy that will express itself as perfect health and well-being if we allow it to. Therefore, the focus of chiropractic care is to remove any physiological blocks to the proper expression of the body’s inner intelligence. Once these interferences are reduced, improved health is the natural consequence. Who wouldn’t want that?