Manahawkin Chiropractic Center Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it requires? Does your physician? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Manahawkin Chiropractic Center prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Manahawkin chiropractic patients. Your Manahawkin chiropractor assesses your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when there is neck pain, your neck when there is arm pain, your low back when there’s leg pain, your thoracic spine when there’s thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Unfortunately, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession endeavors to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Manahawkin chiropractor strives to communicate openly with your insurer for your optimal 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 a study comparing self-reported low back pain to data collected by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered 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 several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.
YOUR BACK PAIN
In a study that expressly examined 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, authentic input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to observe 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 Manahawkin chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Manahawkin chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. A fascinating study of chiropractic students found that with each year of education 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 Manahawkin back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers write today that 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 utilize chiropractic are found to have better clinical outcomes (faster recovery, fewer back surgeries a year 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 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 describing 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 Manahawkin chiropractic care appointment with Manahawkin Chiropractic Center. Know that Manahawkin Chiropractic Center knows Manahawkin back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
