Executive Chiropractic of Iowa Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it requires? Does your physician? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Executive Chiropractic of Iowa prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our West Des Moines chiropractic patients. Your West Des Moines chiropractor assesses your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when there’s neck pain, your neck when you have arm pain, your low back when you have leg pain, your thoracic spine when there is thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Unfortunately, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession endeavors to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your West Des Moines 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 one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data collected by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered that these two groups don’t 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 varied in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa 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 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 who filled out questionnaires and doctors who filled out objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to notice 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 West Des Moines chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your West Des Moines chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. An interesting study of chiropractic students found that 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 prepared to take care of West Des Moines back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial 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 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 cost (fewer medical doctors visits for low back pain, less opioid expense, less back-surgery cost) with more 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 as they described how non-pharmacological relieving treatment of back pain utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical West Des Moines chiropractic care appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa. Know that Executive Chiropractic of Iowa knows West Des Moines back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
