OrthoIllinois 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 doctor? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? OrthoIllinois Chiropractic prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our McHenry chiropractic patients. Your McHenry 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 there is leg pain, your thoracic spine when you have thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer does not. The chiropractic profession endeavors to deliver the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your McHenry chiropractor strives to communicate clearly with your insurer for your optimal care and with you for your optimal clinical outcome: back pain relief, neck pain relief, arm pain relief, leg pain relief, etc.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data does not tell the entire story about back pain. In one study comparing self-reported low back pain to data collected by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered that these two sources don’t agree. Self-reported data about low back pain (21.2%) was greater than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients based on data differed in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) OrthoIllinois 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 point of view and the objective testing angle revealed that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, actual input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to notice that while these two sources do not correlate well, each is important in the whole general picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your McHenry chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your McHenry chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. A fascinating 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 ready to take care of McHenry 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 such non-drug pain management offering. In an analysis 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 shown to have better 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 higher levels of satisfaction. (5) These are not bad trade-offs for the Medicare cost system and for the Medicare patient.
CONTACT OrthoIllinois Chiropractic
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 using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical McHenry chiropractic care appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic. Your McHenry chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
