Aurora Chiropractic Center 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)? Aurora Chiropractic Center prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Juneau chiropractic patients. Your Juneau chiropractor assesses your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when you have neck pain, your neck when there is 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. Unfortunately, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Juneau 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 doesn’t tell the whole 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 discovered that these two groups 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 several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Aurora 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 specifically looked at 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 observe 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 Juneau chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Juneau chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Aurora Chiropractic Center. An interesting study of chiropractic students revealed how with each year of schooling they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is ready to take care of Juneau back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers write today of how the use of non-pharmacological pain management may inhibit 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-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 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 utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Juneau chiropractic care visit with Aurora Chiropractic Center. Your Juneau chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
