Old Mill 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 physician? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Old Mill Chiropractic prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our St Peters chiropractic patients. Your St Peters chiropractor examines your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when you have neck pain, your neck when you have 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 does not. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to pay for essential treatment for your spine while your St Peters chiropractor strives to communicate openly with your insurer for your best 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 whole story about back pain. In a 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 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 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) Old Mill Chiropractic 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 don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, real input was from people: patients filling 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 important in the overall picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your St Peters chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your St Peters chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Old Mill Chiropractic. An interesting study of chiropractic students found that with each year of learning they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is ready to take care of St Peters back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps growing! Researchers write today of how 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 use 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 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 alleviating treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical St Peters chiropractic care appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic. Your St Peters chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
