Apple Country Chiropractic 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)? Apple Country Chiropractic prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Williamson chiropractic patients. Your Williamson chiropractor assesses your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when there’s neck pain, your neck when you have arm pain, your low back when you have leg pain, your thoracic spine when there’s thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor ”gets” your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer does not. The chiropractic profession strives to deliver the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Williamson chiropractor strives to communicate clearly with your insurer for your best care and with you for your best clinical outcome: back pain relief, neck pain relief, arm pain relief, leg pain relief, etc.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data doesn’t tell the entire story about back pain. In one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data gathered by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and such discovered that these two groups do not agree. Self-reported data regarding low back pain (21.2%) was greater than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients founded on data differed in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Apple Country Chiropractic 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 found that these two measures don’t 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 directed the researchers to notice that while these two sources don’t correlate well, each is valuable in the overall picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Williamson chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Williamson chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Apple Country Chiropractic. An interesting study of chiropractic students revealed how 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 ready to take care of Williamson back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers report today of how the use of non-pharmacological pain management may prevent unnecessary use of opioids. Chiropractic is one type of non-drug pain management offering. In an analysis of 101,221 spine pain patients, 1.55 to 2.03 times more non-chiropractic patients filled an opioid prescription than chiropractic patients. (4) Further, Medicare beneficiary patients who use chiropractic are shown to have better clinical outcomes (faster recovery, fewer back surgeries a year later, less opioid-linked 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 alleviating treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Williamson chiropractic care visit with Apple Country Chiropractic. Know that Apple Country Chiropractic knows Williamson back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
