Layden Chiropractic 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)? Layden Chiropractic prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Plainville chiropractic patients. Your Plainville chiropractor examines your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when there is neck pain, your neck when you have arm pain, your low back when you have leg pain, your thoracic spine when you have thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor ”gets” your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to deliver the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Plainville chiropractor endeavors to communicate openly 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 comparing self-reported low back pain to data gathered by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered 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 founded on data differed in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Layden 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 revealed that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, real input was from people: patients who filled out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to note 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 Plainville chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Plainville chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Layden Chiropractic. A fascinating 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 Plainville back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps growing! 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 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 cost (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 alleviating treatment of back pain utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Plainville chiropractic care appointment with Layden Chiropractic. Your Plainville chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
