Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it needs? Does your doctor? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Carrolltown chiropractic patients. Your Carrolltown chiropractor examines your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when you have neck pain, your neck when there’s arm pain, your low back when there’s leg pain, your thoracic spine when there is thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession endeavors to provide the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Carrolltown chiropractor endeavors to communicate clearly with your insurer for your best care and with you for your optimal clinical outcome: relief of pain.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data doesn’t tell the entire story about back pain. In one study comparing self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like found that these two groups do not agree. Self-reported data regarding low back pain (21.2%) was higher than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients founded on data differed in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation 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 found that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, actual input was from people: patients who filled out questionnaires and doctors who filled out objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to notice that while these two sources do not correlate well, each is valuable in the overall picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Carrolltown chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Carrolltown chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. 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 Carrolltown back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of useful chiropractic spine care keeps growing! Researchers write today that the use of non-pharmacological pain management may inhibit 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 found to have better clinical outcomes (faster recovery, fewer back surgeries a year 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.
Make a non-surgical Carrolltown chiropractic care visit with Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation. Your Carrolltown chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
