Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost

How well do you know your spine and what it needs? Does your doctor? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Manchester chiropractic patients. Your Manchester chiropractor examines your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when there’s neck pain, your neck when there’s arm pain, your low back when there’s leg pain, your thoracic spine when there is thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to deliver the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Manchester chiropractor strives to communicate clearly with your insurer for your best care and with you for your best clinical outcome: relief of pain.

YOUR INSURER

Administrators’ data doesn’t tell the entire story about back pain. In one study comparing self-reported low back pain to data collected by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and such found that these two sources don’t agree. Self-reported data regarding low back pain (21.2%) was greater than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients based on data differed in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.

YOUR BACK PAIN

In a study that specifically examined one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient angle and the objective testing angle revealed that these two measures do not correlate well either. At least in this comparison, actual input was from people: patients who filled out questionnaires and doctors who filled out objective tests. These findings led the researchers to note that while these two sources do not correlate well, each is valuable in the overall picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Manchester chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.

YOUR CHIROPRACTOR

Your Manchester chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. A fascinating study of chiropractic students found that with each year of schooling they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is prepared to take care of Manchester back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers write today of how the use of non-pharmacological pain management may prevent unnecessary use of opioids. Chiropractic is one such non-drug pain management offering. In a study of 101,221 spine pain patients, 1.55 to 2.03 times more non-chiropractic patients got an opioid prescription than chiropractic patients. (4) Further, Medicare beneficiary patients who utilize chiropractic are shown to have better clinical outcomes (faster recovery, fewer back surgeries 12 months later, less opioid-associated disability, fewer traumatic falls and injuries, slower declines in activities of daily living and disability over time) at less cost (fewer medical doctors visits for low back pain, less opioid expense, less back-surgery cost) with higher levels of satisfaction. (5) These are not bad trade-offs for the Medicare cost system and for the Medicare patient.

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Listen to this PODCAST by Dr. Lee Hazen and Cheri Hazen RN on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson describing how non-pharmacological relieving treatment of back pain utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.

Make a non-surgical Manchester chiropractic care visit with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. Your Manchester chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.

 
 Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries presents how non-drug treatment of back pain combined with knowledge of the spine and its pain help in the relief of spine pain: more quickly and less costly. 
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