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!