Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you know your spine and what it requires? Does your physician? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Sitka chiropractic patients. Your Sitka chiropractor examines your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when you have 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 knows your spine. Unfortunately, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Sitka chiropractor endeavors to communicate clearly with your insurer for your optimal care and with you for your best clinical outcome: relief of pain.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data does not tell the entire story about back pain. In a study comparing self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered that these two sources 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 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) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka 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 found that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, authentic input was from people: patients who filled 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 whole general picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Sitka chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Sitka chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. An interesting study of chiropractic students revealed how with each year of schooling 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 Sitka 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 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 filled 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-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 relieving treatment of back pain utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical Sitka chiropractic care appointment with Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka. Know that Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka knows Sitka back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
