Rosenberg Wellness Center Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you know your spine and what it requires? Does your doctor? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Rosenberg Wellness Center prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our New York City chiropractic patients. Your New York City chiropractor assesses your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when there is neck pain, your neck when you have arm pain, your low back when you have leg pain, your thoracic spine when you have thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor ”gets” 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 New York City chiropractor endeavors to communicate clearly 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 entire story about back pain. In a study that compared self-reported low back pain to data gathered 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 about low back pain (21.2%) was greater 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 underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Rosenberg Wellness Center 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 do not 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 note 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 New York City chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your New York City chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Rosenberg Wellness Center. A fascinating 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 New York City back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of beneficial chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers report 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 filled an opioid prescription than chiropractic patients. (4) Further, Medicare beneficiary patients who use chiropractic are found to have higher 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 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 utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical New York City chiropractic care visit with Rosenberg Wellness Center. Your New York City chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
