Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. Delivers Relieving Spine Care often in Less Time, with Less Cost
How well do you understand your spine and what it needs? Does your physician? Does your insurer (ie, Medicare)? Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. prides itself on understanding the spine of each of our Auburn chiropractic patients. Your Auburn 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 there’s thoracic (and even neck and low back) pain. Your chiropractor ”gets” your spine. Sadly, sometimes your insurer does not. The chiropractic profession endeavors to provide the research to the insurers to cover essential treatment for your spine while your Auburn chiropractor endeavors to communicate clearly with your insurer for your best 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 assembled by health administrations that track low back pain via billing codes and the like discovered that these two groups don’t 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 differed in several areas – sex, health/behavior traits, and health care use – leading to an underestimated prevalence of low back pain. (1) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. knows how prevalent back pain is and how it affects our back pain patients like you.
YOUR BACK PAIN
In a study that specifically examined one influence on back pain - spinal stiffness - from the subjective patient point of view and the objective testing angle found that these two measures do not correlate well either. At least in this comparison, authentic input was from people: patients filling out questionnaires and doctors doing objective tests. These findings directed the researchers to observe 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 Auburn chiropractor factors in this evidence to care for your spine.
YOUR CHIROPRACTOR
Your Auburn chiropractor is an evidence-based chiropractor. Evidence leads the spine relief treatment plan at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.. A fascinating 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 prepared to take care of Auburn 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 shown 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 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 as they described how non-pharmacological relieving treatment of back pain utilizing the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management and other non-drug approaches help.
Schedule a non-surgical Auburn chiropractic care appointment with Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.. Your Auburn chiropractor knows your spine well and how to relieve it of pain: neck pain, arm pain, low back pain or leg pain.
