Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it needs? Does your physician? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Groton chiropractic patients. Your Groton chiropractor examines your low back when there is 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 there’s 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 pay for essential treatment for your spine while your Groton 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 does not tell the entire story about back pain. In a study comparing self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered that these two groups do not agree. Self-reported data about low back pain (21.2%) was higher than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients based on data varied in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.
YOUR BACK PAIN
In a study that expressly examined one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient point of view and the objective testing angle found that these two measures do not correlate well either. At least in this comparison, authentic input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors who filled out objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to note that while these two sources don’t correlate well, each is important in the whole general picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Groton chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Groton chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. An interesting study of chiropractic students revealed how as each year of school passed 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 Groton 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 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 use chiropractic are found to have better clinical outcomes (faster recovery, fewer back surgeries 12 months 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 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 relieving treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Groton chiropractic care appointment with Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office. Your Groton chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
