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 physician? 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’s low back pain, your neck when you have neck pain, your neck when there is arm pain, your low back when there is leg pain, your thoracic spine when there is thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor ”gets” your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer does not. The chiropractic profession endeavors to deliver the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Manchester chiropractor endeavors to communicate clearly with your insurer for your optimal care and with you for your optimal clinical outcome: back pain relief, neck pain relief, arm pain relief, leg pain relief, etc.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data does not tell the whole story about back pain. In one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data collected by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like found that these two groups don’t agree. Self-reported data about low back pain (21.2%) was higher than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients based on data differed in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued 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 looked at one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient point of view and the objective testing angle revealed that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, real input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors who filled out objective tests. These findings directed 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 care for 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 learning the students 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 useful chiropractic spine care keeps growing! Researchers report today of how the use of non-pharmacological pain management may inhibit unnecessary use of opioids. Chiropractic is one type of 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 found to have higher 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 expense (fewer medical doctors visits for low back pain, less opioid expense, less back-surgery cost) with more 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 as they described how non-pharmacological relieving treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical Manchester chiropractic care appointment with Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries. Know that Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows Manchester back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
