Pure Chiropractic Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it needs? Does your physician? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Pure Chiropractic prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Concord, NC chiropractic patients. Your Concord, NC chiropractor examines your low back when there’s 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 doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Concord, NC chiropractor strives to communicate openly 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 whole story about back pain. In one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and the like found that these two groups don’t agree. Self-reported data regarding 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) Pure 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 looked at one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient angle and the objective testing angle revealed that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, authentic input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings led 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 Concord, NC chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Concord, NC chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Pure Chiropractic. An interesting study of chiropractic students found that as each year of school passed they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is prepared to take care of Concord, NC 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 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 utilize chiropractic are shown 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 aren’t 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 utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Concord, NC chiropractic care appointment with Pure Chiropractic. Your Concord, NC chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
