How well do you know your spine and what it requires? Does your doctor? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? New Hampshire Spine and Sport prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Southern New Hampshire chiropractic patients. Your Southern New Hampshire 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 is thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor knows your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to deliver the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor strives 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 a study that compared self-reported low back pain to data gathered by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and such found that these two sources 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 founded on data differed in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) New Hampshire Spine and Sport 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 revealed 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 observe that while these two sources don’t correlate well, each is important in the overall picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at New Hampshire Spine and Sport. An interesting study of chiropractic students found that as each year of school passed they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is prepared to take care of Southern New Hampshire back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of useful 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 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-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 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 Southern New Hampshire chiropractic care appointment with New Hampshire Spine and Sport. Your Southern New Hampshire chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.