Patient Education

Jerry Rice speaks about Chiropractic

Today, athletes, their agents, athletic trainers, and medical doctors understand the consequences of disabling the pain mechanism and have come to align themselves with the chiropractic perspective - treat the cause of the pain.

All but one of the 32 teams in the National Football League (NFL) utilize the services of a chiropractor as part of the triage in managing and preventing injuries. (Only one team does not publicly admit to using chiropractic care - the Oakland Raiders.)

WHY OUR OFFICE FOR YOUR ACCIDENT CASE?

Personal injury accidents involve a very specialized area of medicine that should only be handled by experienced Personal Injury Accident Doctors with a proven track record, expertise, excellent reporting procedures and treatment plans, individually designed for the injured patient.

OUR ADVANTAGES & DISTINCTIONS OVER OTHER MEDCIAL OFFICES :

We are one of the few offices that can provide treatment and prompt proficient rate-able reports that involve accidents patients only. Accidents including but not limiting to; auto, personal injuries, slip and falls, motorcycle, brain injury, and more…

We have treated and reported over 10,000 accident cases and based on our expertise, this gives us a distinction and an advantage over other medical offices. This in turn gives patients treated by our office and advantage of knowing we have the knowledge, and treatment experience and can provide prompt reports to insurance companies and attorneys involved, which is essential in handling of your accident case.

We have combination of experienced chiropractic, medical, therapy and other specialists available to correctly assess your condition and render treatment needed.

We utilize the AMA Disability Guidelines for injuries to accurately report your condition from beginning to the end of care!

With over a combined 30 years of successful experience, RB Spine Center has earned an excellent reputation in the medical/ legal community and is highly respected by attorneys, and insurance carriers, thus benefiting patients .

HOW WE WILL TREAT YOUR INURY:

We follow every reasonable medical and scientific procedure to provide you with for the highest level of treatment and personalized care. We do this by utilizing the most current and innovative technology to give you maximum benefit. We are extremely thorough in the examination, treatment and reporting of your injury. We are relentless in the pursuit to get you out of pain and heal the area(s) injured, and we work harder than other offices to achieve such.

PERSONAL ATTENTION:

At RB Spine Center we take pride in giving each patient individual and personal attention.

1. We are committed to excellent patient service.
2. We care about our patients. and their well being.
3. We answer all our patients’ questions promptly.
4. We keep our clients informed of the status of their condition.
5. We make sure that we provide reports in a very prompt manner (average 10 days time frame).
6. We continually research treatment modalities which provide maximum pain relief and healing benefits to our patients.
7. We limit the number of patients seen on a daily basis, providing personalized quality care. Emphasizing we are a medical office and NOT a clinic!
8. We utilize comprehensive medical findings based on AMA Disability Guidelines to help accurately report the severity of your injury to your attorney and insurance company.

We also accept liens and have payment options available for all injured patients.

If you or your loved one has been involved in an auto or personal injury, please contact our office immediately, 858-345-4887-as time is critical in the treatment of your injury.

STUDY SAYS 74% OF CHRONIC WHIPLASH PATIENTS IMPROVED WITH CHIROPRACTIC

Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine 1999;21(1):22-25.

A study by Woodward, Cook, Gargan and Bannister found 93% of the patients studied under chiropractic care for chronic whiplash injuries had improved.

They further stated "...no conventional (medical) treatment has proven to be effective in these established chronic cases."

Studies on the efficacy of chiropractic care for patients suffering with pain secondary to whiplash injury are appearing in the literature. In 1996, Woodward et al. published a study in Injury on the efficacy of chiropractic treatment of whiplash injuries.1 The authors of this study were from the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Bristol, England.

"Forty-three per cent of patients will suffer long-term symptoms following 'whiplash' injury, for which no conventional treatment has proven to be effective. A retrospective study was undertaken to determine the effects of chiropractic in a group of 28 patients who had been referred with chronic 'whiplash' syndrome. The severity of patients' symptoms was assessed before and after treatment using the Gargan and Bannister (1990) classification. Twenty-six (93 per cent) patients improved following chiropractic treatment (U = 34, P < 0.001). The encouraging results from this retrospective study merit the instigation of a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare conventional with chiropractic treatment in chronic 'whiplash' injury."

Woodward MN, Cook CH, Gargan MF, Bannister GC. Chiropractic treatment of chronic whiplash injuries. Injury 1996;27(9):643-645.

In 1994, Gargan and Bannister published a paper on the recovery rate of patients with whiplash injuries and found that if patients were still symptomatic after three months, there was almost a 90% chance they would remain so.2 Gargan MF, Bannister GC. The rate of recovery following whiplash.

Eur Spine J 1994;3:162.

"No conventional medical treatment has been shown to be effective in these established chronic whiplash injury patients."

Barnsely L, Lord S, Bogduk N. Whiplash injury, a clinical review. Pain 1994;58:283. Bogduk N. Post whiplash syndrome. Aust Fam Phys 1994;23:2303.

(Mealy, K, Brennan H, Fenelon, GCC, "Early Mobilization of Acute Whiplash Injuries," Brit. Med. Journal, Vol. 292:8 3/1986), the authors clearly showed that early active care including movement/cavitation of the spinal joints was more effective than cervical collars and bed rest.

At a mean of 15.5 years post whiplash trauma, 70% of the whiplash injured patients continued to complain of symptoms referable and related to the originial accident. 80% of women and 50% of men continued to have symptoms at 15 years.

Squires, B, Gargan, MF, Bannister, GC, "Soft-tissue Injuries of the Cervical Spine: a 15 year Follow-up," J of Bone and Joint Surg. (British), Vol. 78B(6), 11/96, p 955-7. From the University of Bristol, England