Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you know your spine and what it needs? Does your doctor? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Amelia Chiropractic Clinic prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Fernandina Beach chiropractic patients. Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor assesses your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when there’s neck pain, your neck when there’s arm pain, your low back when there’s 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 doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Fernandina Beach 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 does not tell the entire story about back pain. In a study that compared self-reported low back pain to data gathered by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and such found that these two groups do not 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 undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic 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 found 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 who filled out objective tests. These findings led the researchers to observe 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 Fernandina Beach chiropractor uses this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Fernandina Beach chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. A fascinating study of chiropractic students revealed how with each year of learning they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is prepared to take care of Fernandina Beach back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of useful chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers write today that the use of non-pharmacological pain management may inhibit 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 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 higher levels of 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 describing how non-pharmacological relieving treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Fernandina Beach chiropractic care appointment with Amelia Chiropractic Clinic. Know that Amelia Chiropractic Clinic knows Fernandina Beach back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
