Chiropractic Care for Rheumatology Patients — A Missing Puzzle Piece?

Rheumatic disease is often debilitating and wreaks havoc on patients’ activities and their lives. As a Rheumatologist, your patients present to you with stiff, swollen, and painful joints and muscles that limit their movement and can lead to a host of related concerns from inactivity and being sedentary.

With over 54 million Americans suffering from some form of arthritis, from osteoarthritis to rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, or Scleroderma, the problem is only going to grow in size as our population continues to live longer and problems from joint pain and cartilage damage expands. While low by national standards, about 23% of the population in and around Mill Creek, Washington, suffer from some form of arthritis.

How Chiropractic Care Can Be Valuable to Your Care Team

Chiropractic practitioners specialize in all types of joint pain and discomfort.  Their skilled manipulation has been found to be beneficial in treating lower back and neck pain along with other joints, such as the hip and knee.

As a non-invasive alternative, chiropractic care is shown to ease pain and, coupled with stretching and a healthy, inflammation-reducing diet, can improve mobility in rheumatology patients.

Consider these ways a chiropractor will contribute to and expand your treatment team:

• Chiropractic care can relieve inflammation and the associated pain, which is a main factor in arthritis. This non-invasive treatment can reduce the need for medications in many patients.
• Chiropractic care is a beneficial and non-invasive way to treat rheumatoid and osteoarthritis by using among other things, gentle manipulations, infrared sauna, and full-body vibration plate machine.
• Although chiropractic care cannot reverse arthritis, it has been shown to improve spinal posture which relieves pain from arthritis and may slow the advance of the disease.

A Holistic Focus

At Amazing Life Chiropractic & Wellness, we take a holistic treatment approach. By working with our referring providers to understand the scope of treatment being sought, we can then actively listen to the patient about the how their pain is progressing and develop a plan together as part of a cohesive team.

One of our core beliefs at Amazing Life is that the best care comes from treating the whole patient which means understanding their specific objectives, as well as their overall lifestyle and health goals. Once we can envision the patient’s whole situation, it becomes much easier to find treatment options that help the patient and that the patient will absorb as part of their own habitual program offering lifetime benefits.

Chiropractic Care Brings an Additional Steady Hand to Your Team

At Amazing Life, every chiropractor is board-certified and each one has a deep knowledge of treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal issues. Additionally, our providers are well-versed in treating chronic pain issues suffered by many rheumatology patients.

Our modes of treatment may include:

• Chiropractic manipulation using the latest techniques that are proven gentle and effective for muscle and joint aches and pains.
• We focus on stretching exercises that help alleviate the tightness and inflammation often experienced by rheumatology patients.
• Massage therapy for patients to help them learn to relax while alleviating pain, inflammation, and soreness.
• Lifestyle support with doctor-guided weight loss solutions, stretching exercises, and activity/exercise counseling.

At Amazing Life, our goal is to keep you fully informed on your patient’s treatment plan, progress, and final outcome. We are committed to open communication throughout the treatment of your patient and want to ensure that our treatment regime fits within your overall rheumatology philosophy. We are always open to guidance from the patient’s primary care or rheumatology provider.

If you are a Rheumatology physician or advanced care provider in the Mill Creek, WA, community, please contact Amazing Life to discuss how we can partner with you as part of your holistic care team or stop by for a visit — we’d love to show you around!

Referring Your Patients to Chiropractic Care as a Nurse Practitioner

As the ambulatory healthcare team has evolved and expanded, the position of nurse practitioner has taken on the role of trusted advisor and patient advocate within the leadership team of many primary and specialty care practices. With the skill and knowledge to diagnose, treat, and manage illnesses and injuries, nurse practitioners develop deep and long-term relations with their patients as health partners.

There are over 290,000 nurse practitioners practicing today and almost 90% of them are certified in primary care health delivery. They are an integral part of a practice’s care team managing patient health and preventing disease.

A Natural Fit

With this holistic and preventive focus, nurse practitioners and chiropractors make a natural, complementary team. Open to a full range of alternative options, nurse practitioners find a collaborative relationship with a team like Amazing Life Chiropractic and Wellness, in Mill Creek, Washington, that brings a valuable synergy that exceeds patients’ expectations.

In fact, many patients seek out chiropractic care on their own or through their insurance provider when faced with musculoskeletal injuries, car accident injuries, or work-related issues. To ensure thorough case management and a holistic, overall approach, patients are better served when there is a reciprocal, collaborative relationship between their primary care provider and their chiropractic team.

Chiropractors Make Terrific Holistic Referrals for Advanced Practice Nurses

At Amazing Life Chiropractic & Wellness, our clinicians are board-certified and have deep knowledge and experience in treating a wide array of musculoskeletal issues. When you send a patient for evaluation and treatment, we look at the overall picture and incorporate the patient’s lifestyle, socioeconomic environment, and their mind-body connection.

In working as part of your healthcare delivery team, we see our role as contributing to healing the whole person — it’s our guiding priority.

Our expertise includes:

• Chiropractic manipulation — We incorporate the most up-to-date techniques in our treatment regime. Our manipulation process is outstanding for back, neck, and extremities problems. When a patient is faced with pain from exercise or work-related strains or injuries and is experiencing muscle aches and pains, chiropractic care can provide non-invasive relief – often without medications.

• Lifestyle support — Our team is highly knowledgeable about weight loss solutions coupled with overall exercise counseling to support a patient in holistic healing.

• Custom orthotics — We have found that chronic musculoskeletal pain is often a subset aggravated by posture issues and even problems with the feet. Our custom orthotics program provides an easy assessment process to identify options that will positively impact the patient for work and leisure activities.

• Neuropathy care — Amazing Life has broad experience in treating patients, like diabetes patients, that struggle with nerve pain and weakness, numbness, and acute pain.

As fellow practitioners, we acknowledge that when referring patients to another practice, your expectation is that you will receive timely follow up.

At Amazing Life, we strive to keep our partner providers extensively informed about a patient’s progress. Our goal is to keep you fully informed on your patient’s treatment plan, progress, and final outcome. Please rest assured that your patients will be directed back to you when treatment is complete.

If you are a nurse practitioner in the Mill Creek community, please contact Amazing Life to discuss how we can partner with you as part of your holistic care team or stop by for a visit — we’d love to show you around!

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