Chiropractic Works Better and Saves Money On Healthcare

How you can reduce healthcare costs while improving your chronic back pain…

A recent article makes several suggestions to do exactly that, reduce back pain and save money… a winning combination.

Here’s the list of things to do to finally get rid of your back pain

• See a chiropractor.
• See a massage therapist.
• Exercise including yoga.
• *It would make sense to do these plus other lifestyle changes to improve your symptoms and health.

Note: what is not mentioned to help chronic back pain and save healthcare costs is take pain relievers or have surgery.

This is important because for most people suffering with back pain, they often end up taking ever stronger pain relievers that include NSAIDs, muscle relaxers, steroids, opiates, and injections.

Ultimately many people have surgery when for so many they could have been helped with chiropractic care which would have prevented a lot of suffering, lost work, disability, and medical costs

Here’s how the researcher broke down the benefits of different non-medical care for chronic back pain…

1. Chiropractic care had the greatest effect on reducing healthcare costs over 12 months.
2. Exercise worked best for reducing sick days.

From article…

“Our network meta-analysis showed significantly higher efficacy for most assessed non-pharmacological strategies than standard care”

In other words, non medication approaches for helping chronic back pain work better than medication.

Not only did it work better, but it saved healthcare costs!

Reference:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

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