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Villa Park Chiropractors FAQ
Like other Villa Park chiropractors, we hear many questions from new and current chiropractic patients.
Here are some of the most common questions and answers...
Does insurance pay for chiropractic care?
Yes! Virtually all insurance policies pay for necessary chiropractic care. This includes health insurance policies, car insurance policies, workers compensation policies and Medicare. The best way to find out exactly how much of your care will be covered by your policy is to bring your insurance card with you on your first visit. We will be happy to check your coverage for you. We also offer financing with low monthly payments that will fit easily into your monthly budget.
How long will I need chiropractic care?
As a Villa Park IL chiropractor I understand everyone is an individual and each person’s health problem is a little different from the next. Therefore, each treatment program, both the type and the length, is different for every patient.
For a good portion of your life, you’ve probably been taught that if you feel okay you are okay, but this is not necessarily true. Your pains and other symptoms are warning signs of something more serious going on. For example, when someone has a heart attack the chest pain and shortness of breath are a warning sign of the more serious condition (the blockage of the artery) that is underlying. The best treatment is the one that attempts to correct the underlying cause of the condition so that you don’t relapse. This takes longer than simply patching up the problem with simple pain relief.
In general, most patients are under care for several weeks in order to achieve maximum results. Of course, how long you decide to benefit from chiropractic care is always up to you.
How does chiropractic work?
Your body has an inborn ability to be healthy and under normal conditions, your nerve system controls all the cells, tissues, and organs of your body, thus allowing your inborn healing ability to resist disease, ill health and pain.
When your spinal bones get out of their proper alignment, the delicate nerves exiting from between your vertebrae become pinched and don't function properly. The chiropractic approach is to locate interferences where your nerves are pinched (a subluxation or fixation), inhibiting your proper nerve function and correct them (the spinal adjustment).
What is an adjustment?
An adjustment is the art of applying a specific thrust in a precise direction to the joints in your body that are out of position or are not moving properly. This adds motion to your joints and helps the bones gradually return to a more normal position and motion, thus removing pressure and irritation from your nerves. This time tested and safe procedure helps to improve your spinal function, improve your nerve system function and improve your health.
How safe is chiropractic care?
Chiropractic care is amazingly safe! The risk of a complication from a chiropractic adjustment is so rare that it cannot be accurately measured but can only be estimated. Those estimates range from one in one million adjustments to one in 100 million adjustments. These odds are so small that they might not mean much until they are put in perspective.
If there are approximately 50,000 Americans killed each year in automobile accidents and there are approximately 250,000,000 people in the country then your odds of being killed in a car accident is 1 in 5000. How many of you will stop driving?
Let’s look at the other end of the safety spectrum.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that adverse reactions from prescription drugs kill between 76,000 and 137,000 Americans each year and that there are another 2,200,000 serious nonfatal reactions each year. What makes these numbers even more chilling is that the researchers in this study excluded cases where drugs were misprescribed or used wrongly. The authors of this study said that if the number of deaths was averaged prescription drugs would be the 4th leading cause of death in the United States right behind heart disease, cancer and stroke.
Another article, this one in The New England Journal of Medicine, said there is a "silent epidemic" of aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related deaths. The authors estimated that 16,500 people die each year as a result of taking NSAIDs, which include aspirin, ibuprofen and some of the ingredients in Aleve, Naprox, Voltaren, and Indocin. Here’s some more perspective – in 1997, 16,685 people died from AIDS. According to Dr. M. Michael Wolfe of Boston University School of Medicine, if the deaths from complications of NSAID use were ranked with the other major causes of death in the United States, they would rank as the 15th leading cause of death.
Sometimes a person needs drugs to help them recover their health or to stay alive but we certainly take too many drugs in this country. There is a better way to get healthy and stay healthy.
Chiropractic care is your best and safest first choice for health care! Call today!
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