Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you know your spine and what it needs? Does your physician? Does your insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Montreal chiropractic patients. Your Montreal chiropractor assesses your low back when there’s low back pain, your neck when you have neck pain, your neck when there’s 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 knows your spine. Unfortunately, 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 Montreal chiropractor strives to communicate clearly 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 entire story about back pain. In one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health groups 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 greater than administration’s data (10.2%). Characteristics of low back pain patients based on data differed in a few areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an undervalued prevalence of low back pain. (1) Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.
YOUR BACK PAIN
In a study that specifically looked at 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, actual 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 don’t correlate well, each is important in the whole general picture of the patient’s condition and care. (2) Your Montreal chiropractor factors in this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Montreal chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence guides the spine relief treatment plan at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. 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 prepared to take care of Montreal back pain and neck pain patients. The evidence of useful chiropractic spine care keeps expanding! 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 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 utilize chiropractic are shown 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 expense (fewer medical doctors visits for low back pain, less opioid expense, less back-surgery cost) with higher levels of 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.
Schedule a non-surgical Montreal chiropractic care appointment with Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic. Your Montreal chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
