Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 insurance provider (ie, Medicare)? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre prides itself on knowing the spine of each of our Toronto chiropractic patients. Your Toronto chiropractor examines your low back when there is low back pain, your neck when you have 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 strives to deliver the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Toronto chiropractor endeavors to communicate openly with your insurer for your optimal 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 doesn’t tell the whole story about back pain. In one study that compared self-reported low back pain to data assembled by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and such found that these two groups do not 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 several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.
YOUR BACK PAIN
In a study that expressly looked at one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient angle and the objective testing angle found 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 doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to observe 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 Toronto chiropractor uses this evidence to take care of your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Toronto chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. An interesting study of chiropractic students found that with each year of education they became less vitalistic and more evidence-based. (3) After 7 or so years in school, your chiropractor is ready to take care of Toronto 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 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 got 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 a year later, less opioid-linked 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 utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Toronto chiropractic care appointment with Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre. Your Toronto chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
