Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 insurer (ie, Medicare)? Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic patients. Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor examines your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when there is neck pain, your neck when there is 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. Unfortunately, sometimes your insurer doesn’t. The chiropractic profession strives to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor endeavors to communicate openly with your insurer for your optimal care and with you for your optimal clinical outcome: back pain relief, neck pain relief, arm pain relief, leg pain relief, etc.
YOUR INSURER
Administrators’ data doesn’t tell the whole story about back pain. In a study that compared self-reported low back pain to data collected by health groups that track low back pain via billing codes and such found that these two groups don’t 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 differed in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 angle and the objective testing angle revealed that these two measures don’t correlate well either. At least in this comparison, authentic input was from people: patients who filled out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to note that while these two sources do not correlate well, each is valuable in the whole general picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. A fascinating study of chiropractic students found that with each year of education 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 Ashburn and Herndon back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of useful chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! Researchers report today that the use of non-pharmacological pain management may prevent 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 filled an opioid prescription than chiropractic patients. (4) Further, Medicare beneficiary patients who utilize chiropractic are shown to have better 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 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 alleviating treatment of back pain using the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Make a non-surgical Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic care appointment with Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn. Know that Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn knows Ashburn and Herndon back pain, understands how it affects you, and has a plan for its relief.
