Save Money on Your Health Care Costs

How Do We Control Health Care Costs?

As we all know, health care costs in the United States continue to increase at staggering rates. The expense of health care insurance premiums and the amount of deductibles goes up, while the amount of coverage and benefits goes down.
Recent changes to national health care laws have both employers and employees uneasy about how much more health care costs are going to rise.  For many, the costs have reached such lofty heights, they simple cannot afford it, whether they are forced to obtain health care coverage or not.

 

 

The Reason People Are Coming to Us Is Changing

For years, people have been seeking our chiropractic care as an alternative to traditional medicine after their medical care failed to resolve their health problem. After months or even years of having to endure the pain and discomfort of trial and error treatments along with a variety of different medications or surgery, people turned to us for answers. They grew tired of living with the same health problem day after day, taking expensive prescription drugs that caused all types of side effects and watching their medical bills grow.

Today, individuals and families are coming to our chiropractic clinics not only for solutions when traditional medical care has failed, but to make us their primary health care provider. They simply cannot afford traditional medical care and turned to our chiropractic care for its affordability.
While they may have came to us due to our affordability, these patients are finding they are healthier and do not get sick as often with common illnesses likes colds and flu as a result of our routine care.

The Cost of Chronic Pain

A study by Johns Hopkins University reports the annual cost of chronic pain in the U.S. is approximately $635 Billion.

How do we drastically reduce this out-of-control cost?
We believe the answer lies with chiropractic care. We focus on wellness and optimizing the human body to prevent injuries and illnesses that cause pain. Our patients who receive regular chiropractic care and follow our lifestyle guidance are simple not getting injured and sick as frequently. Therefore, they do not have to endure excessive pain. If they do become injured or sick, we help them recover quickly without the need for expensive prescription medications.

The Astonishing Cost of Back Pain

A study by the University of Washington published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports spending on back pain in the U.S. exceeds $86 Billion each year.  The study shows medical costs associated with back pain have risen 65% in the past decade, primarily as a result of prescribing more medications, increased use of expensive diagnostics tests like MRI’s and more surgeries.  A significant portion of this huge increase is the medications being prescribed for back pain. Pharmaceutical spending for back pain increased 171% during the last ten years alone.
What’s even more astonishing than the huge increase in back pain related costs is the finding in the study that people with spine problems actually felt worse!
What’s the solution for treating back pain and reducing the associated costs? Based on our experience treating thousands of patients with back pain, we believe the answer lies clearly with chiropractic care.

It’s Time to Look at Chiropractic Care as the First Option

A wide variety of research studies like the ones highlighted above show the overwhelming costs of health care today. Aside from these studies, we all feel the pain of escalating health care costs on our monthly living expenses and budgets. The traditional medical health care model has reached a point where it has priced itself out of reality. The majority of people are struggling to keep up with out-of-control health care insurance coverage and health care related expenses or they simply cannot afford health coverage and are doing without it.
It’s clear the time has come to find a better way to approach health and receive affordable health care that enables you to enjoy your life. The answer can be found in routine chiropractic care.

See How Our Chiropractic Care Can Save You Money

It’s difficult to change and many people are skeptical of chiropractic care. An alternative to traditional medical care that does not involve taking prescription medications is a little hard to swallow for many.

Education, information and interaction will help calm your fears and answer your questions. You have an opportunity each month to obtain the necessary education, receive answers to your questions and interact with the physicians at Atlantic Chiropractic and Wellness Center by attending our monthly Half Hour to Health wellness workshops.
To RSVP for these free events, simply call (386) 492-4881!


Take control of your future health and health care costs. Learn how our chiropractic care will save you and your family money.  Please visit our website to learn more, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions about your health or the health of your family.

Why People Come To Our Office

People have been coming to Atlantic Chiropractic and Wellness Center as an alternative to traditional medicine when that medical care failed to resolve their health problem.

 

After months or even years of having to endure the pain, discomfort and inconvenience of trial and error treatments along with a variety of different medications and/or surgery, people turned to us for answers. They were tired of living with the same health problems day after day. They had enough of expensive prescription medications that caused all types of side effects and they became discouraged with the mountain of medical bills. 

 

Today, individuals and families are coming to our clinic not only for solutions when traditional medical care fails, but to make us their primary health care provider. They simply cannot afford traditional medical care and turned to our chiropractic care for its affordability. 

 

While they may have come to us due to our affordability, these patients are finding they are healthier and do not get sick as often.

 

If you or someone you know has become disheartened with their traditional medical care or is looking for ways to save money on their health care, please give us a call at (386) 492-4881 

  

Yours Truly In Health and Wellness,

The Team at Atlantic Chiropractic and Wellness Center

www.atlanticchirofl.com 

 

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IS MY PAIN SERIOUS?

How do you know whether your pain needs to be evaluated by your chiropractor? This is the age-old question. The answer needs to be specific to your particular problem, rather than a one-size-fits all solution. But there are good guidelines that everyone can follow.

First, is your pain deep and boring (that is, does the pain feel like it's boring into you)? Deep and boring pain usually means something is seriously wrong. If you're woken up at night by this type of pain, a visit to your chiropractor or family physician is in order. Kidney stones and inflamed gallbladders are common causes for deep, boring pain that causes a person to awaken from sleep. Severe heartburn is in this category, too, and should be evaluated by your doctor.

But these types of problems are easy to categorize. You'll probably know, instinctively, that something is wrong. Musculoskeletal pain is rather more difficult to analyze. For example, you lean over in a twisting motion to grab the glass of water on your nightstand and you feel a sharp pain in your lower back. Next morning you have great difficulty getting out of bed. Your lower back is stiff and sore. What should you do?^1,2

Your best course of action will be based on a self-assessment. If you're experiencing pain that radiates down your leg, or numbness or tingling sensations traveling down your leg, you should call your chiropractor's office and ask to be seen right away. Or, if you don't have any radiating pain, but sneezing or coughing does provoke a radiating sensation, take the same action. Similarly, the amount of pain you're having will determine what you do. If the pain is severe, see your chiropractor.

If none of these criteria are present, decision-making gets a bit murky. How you handle your problem will depend on your tolerance for pain. If you have low tolerance, make an appointment to see your chiropractor and get some expert treatment. If you have a higher pain threshold, you might still call for an appointment just to make sure that nothing is seriously wrong. Certainly, if you haven't improved at all after 48 hours, you need to see your chiropractor.

There is another important scenario. If you have a medical condition such as cancer, an endocrine disorder, or a systemic infection, a sudden occurrence of back pain needs immediate attention, regardless of how or why you think the pain occurred.³ This is not to be an alarmist, but rather the recommendation is based on precaution. If there is an existing problem, then new issues need to be looked at closely, just to be sure.

These guidelines provide a sound basis for decision-making, but please remember they are just that - guidelines. Each person needs to be comfortable with their own process. And, of course, it's always much better to be safe than sorry. Your chiropractor is always available to help you sort out these kinds of problems.

 

 In the field of medicine, the term pain management is code for drugs and intraspinal steroid injections. Pain management drugs are almost always opioids such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and morphine. Intraspinal steroid injections are at best a temporary fix, are often based on best guesses, and can have devastating side effects if done incorrectly.

On the other hand, chiropractic pain management always uses conservative methods of care. Chiropractic care does not introduce foreign substances or instruments into the body. The power of chiropractic care lies in its ability to facilitate the body's own healing mechanisms. In essence, based on a systematic analysis of the person's biomechanics and physiology, chiropractic care removes roadblocks to normal functioning of the nerve system. When the nerve systems pathways are free and clear, the body can begin to heal itself from the inside-out.

Your body is very smart. For many problems involving pain, all your body needs to heal itself is a freely functioning nerve system. The goal of chiropractic care is to enable such normal functioning.

¹Smart KM, et al: The discriminative validity of "nociceptive," "peripheral neuropathic," and "central sensitization" as mechanisms-based classifications of musculoskeletal pain. Clin J Pain 27(8):655-653, 2011

²Arendt-Nielsen L, Graven-Nielsen T: Translational musculoskeletal pain research. Clin Rheumatol 25(2):209-226, 2011

³Casazza BA: Diagnosis and treatment of acute low back pain. Am Fam Physician 85(4):343-350, 2012