Release the Grip of Traditional Medicine

I want to start this by making it clear that I am not trying to demonize traditional medicine. Clearly, there is a place for medications, surgeries, and general medical medicine practice.

The principle idea for this blog is to help you understand that there are other options in regards to taking care of your health.

Millions upon millions of dollars are spent every single day by big Pharma to make sure that you are constantly bombarded with advertisements stating that they have the next best medication for whatever seems to ail you. It is amazing how happy every one of those actors are on the big screen, simply because they started taking this miracle drug to block or hide all of their symptoms.

As far as business marketing goes, I would say big Pharma are geniuses. They control the health care market, and they have created a health care system that seems to only have ONE method of treatment, pharmaceuticals. We have no connection to the adverse affects of medications and the traditional medical system.

As I scan through the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, some of the numbers are pretty alarming.

Did you know:

• The average person ages 65 to 69 take almost 14 prescriptions
• Those over 80 take nearly 18 prescriptions
• 15-25% of medications used by seniors have been considered unnecessary or even inappropriate
• Medical related problems or accidents cost the US $177.4 Billion, yes Billion, a year
• Adverse drug reactions is among the top 5 greatest threats to the health of seniors
• Each year, 32,000 seniors suffer hip fractures from medication-related problems
• "Any symptom in an elderly patient should be considered a drug side effect until proven otherwise." -- J. Gurwitz et al. Brown University

There are many more interesting stats to be noted, but you can go to the site above and check it out for yourself.

As I mentioned earlier, the traditional medical system is necessary, but I encourage you to try and understand that it is not necessarily the best choice for your initial method of care. Chronic conditions are addressed with medications as the initial plan of care, and it should not be this way. Low back pain is quickly addressed with muscle relaxers and opiate pain medications, this should not be the case.

Diet and lifestyle based conditions like high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and obesity are addressed with synthetic medications to cover up the symptoms, instead of the doctor taking the time to address the root cause of these condition to prevent them.

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Try Alternative Medicine First

This blog is to encourage each of you to further explore into the alternative medicine avenue.

The true beauty of alternative/holistic care, is that is will actually follow the Hippocratic Oath, "If at least, I will do no harm".

Holistic medicine such as

• Massage Therapy
• Chiropractic Therapy
• Nutritional Supplementation
• Herbal Supplementation
• Reiki
• Yoga

Will not only work to restore your health, it will do it without causing any harm to your body.

Dr. Mercola, a renowned holistic healthcare practitioner  wrote an article called
Chiropractors and Exercise Are Better than Drugs Says New Study

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I encourage you to read this to help understand the difference between allowing the traditional medical system be your initial treatment option, or holistic healthcare.

The truth is, whether you are a senior or not, you know someone that is. You will be some day, and your health today affects you then. If you can start to take control of your health without dependence on a medication regimen, your health will benefit in the long haul. Hopefully you can minimize the prescription levels, and hopefully, if we can start to see the trend in alternative medicine, we can reduce the 25% of unnecessary medications prescribed to the senior citizens.

Regardless of the symptom that you start to have. If you have been diagnoses with a chronic condition, find a holistic provider and just get a second opinion with their treatment options. If they can keep you off of a single medication, your health will benefit.

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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3 Years and Some Change

The birth of New-Start Health Center came in late March 2012. Upon graduating for Palmer College of Chiropractic, Florida in December 2011, I set out to create a health center that bases its principles around changing what you think and know about the medical system. With a strong grasp on Evidence-Based Chiropractic Care and an evolving knowledge on nutritional therapy, tying the two holistic medicine approaches together would be the premise of New-Start Health Center.

The first year was definitely the most difficult. Opening a business that is designed to go against the grain is never easy. Fresh out of college, I definitely felt on my own. There are many chiropractic management companies that are designed to help young businesses get off the ground, but I wanted to pioneer something unique. The primary disconnect for myself and chiropractic management companies is the overall feeling of chiropractic in our society. We have all heard the horror stories of going to a chiropractor, “once you go you have to go forever” or “they spend 2 minutes with you and just crack your back”. Trying to change the mind of the majority on how New-Start is a different style of chiropractic. Evidence-Based Chiropractic does not X-ray every patient. We treat pain syndromes and we release them from care. I spend about 12-15 minutes with every patient, minimum. This is a dramatic change to the stereotypical chiropractic visit.

Treating low back pain, headaches, knee pain, etc, has is rewards, but the current epidemic in the US with obesity and diabetes is something I have become drawn to. As I stated, an evolving knowledge on nutritional therapy, I have spent countless hours in a biochemistry book, in seminars, and scouring the internet for research studies to figure out exactly what is going wrong. The common medical practices for diabetes and obesity have fallen short. We are getting sicker, fatter, and unhealthier at a faster rate than ever previously recorded. Unfortunately, healthcare costs are also at an all-time high and climbing quickly. In the anecdotal world, the treatment of conditions starts with covering up the symptoms, and with low back pain, or migraines, this is not detrimental. When you start to use this approach toward an inflammatory condition like Diabetes or Obesity, more problems arise.

After years of research it seems, 5 or 6 book starters, I am proud to be writing a book called, How Health Comes Apart. The idea behind this book is the primary focus of the nutritional therapy side of New-Start Health Center. I am writing my research to change America’s way of thinking about our obesity epidemic.

In three years, New-Start Health Center has been all about change. Change how chiropractic is viewed and utilized. Change how we diagnose and treat obesity and diabetes, and change how medical systems define success. The first three years in the Columbus area have been encouraging, insightful, and rewarding.  I am proud to be a part of the maturity of New-Start Health Center, and with many more years to come, to continue to change for the better.

~Dr. Trent Mozingo

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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What is the best diet to lose weight?

As you can see, this is a similar question as last weeks about losing weight. Let’s face it, I am in the health care field, the weight loss field, and the nutritional field, this is a common topic of my consultations.

I seem to find myself spending an abundant amount of time researching the latest and greatest FAD diet out that everyone seems to be so crazy over. I constantly hear about the amazing results of this new diet plan that will shed the weight in no time. Lose 10 dress sizes in three weeks. As I stated in the previous blog, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.

To sum up the vast majority of miraculous diet systems out there, I would say you could put them in a few categories:

1.        Calorie counters: These diets are based around the premise of counting every calorie you eat and try to stay at a certain low level to ensure you lose weight. It seems so obvious, a pound of fat is about 3500 calories, so if you eat 3500 less calories than you burn, you will lose 1 pound, right?
2.        Appetite suppressors: These diets are all about decreasing your urge to eat. They use miracle supplements that just keep you from putting food in your mouth. This will decrease your calorie intake and ensure you lose weight. This is the same regard as trying to burn 3500 calories than you eat to lose weight.
3.       Metabolism boosters: I am sure you have seen a plethora of supplements that claim to boost your metabolism. The idea is, if you boost your metabolism, your body will burn more calories at rest and you will lose weight. This diet seems so easy. I can eat whatever I want, and take this metabolism boosting supplement and let it do the work for me.
4. .      Restrictive plans: These are designed to create a diet that restricts a particular food group. The low fat diets, zero carb diets, etc. The theory is that some food groups are responsible for your gaining of weight, and if you stop eating them, you will lose weight. I know you have heard of the anti-carb Atkins Diet. Everyone in the US has been brainwashed about how bad FAT is to eat. So, cut the bad out and you will lose weight, easy peezee.

Do you want to know the biggest problem with all of these diet systems????

They work.

Yes, the problem is they work. You do lose weight. The catch is, its temporary.

Sure, you shock your body by doing some radical change to your diet and you will lose some weight. There is a certain expense to this though. The Yo-Yo effect of dieting and weight.

Fun analogy time!!!

Think about losing weight as if you are trying to improve the gas mileage on your car.

A calorie counting or appetite suppressant diet will only decrease the amount of gas you put in the car. Sure, when your car runs out of gas and you are coasting along without the engine running, you will have a dramatic increase in your gas mileage. BUT> that car comes to a screeching halt and your car is sitting there without any fuel to run itself.  This is what happens when you restrict your calories to an extreme 1200 calorie a day or less diet. Yes, for a brief time, you will lose weight, but every functioning part of your body is being depleted of the fuel it needs to work properly. After time, you will shut down, and just like the car, you will start to fill that tank back up because your car, and your body demand fuel to function.  Now to get your body out of this extreme depleted state, your body is going to overfill its tank and you will add the weight back on, and typically plus some because the body is worried about a crash like that happening again.

Appetite suppressors are very similar to trying to water down the gas you put in your tank to get more out of it. Sure, you are going to use less gas, but your car is not going to run as well on this watered down replacement. End of the day, your car will get less miles per gallon per each gallon you put in because the fuel you are putting in it is just not what the car needs to run at its potential. Appetite suppressant supplementation basically make your body run at a less than optimal level because it doesn’t want to use up all of its stored fuel. And what happens when you run a car on watered down gas for long periods of time? Things start to fail and it eventually shuts down. You do not want this to happen to your body, because to get it started again, it is a lot like the caloric restriction diets, it will add weight back on to protect itself.

Metabolism booster supplements simulate the process of putting some super high octane booster additive into each of your fill ups at the pump to supercharge the energy that your car can burn. This is very effective; your car will run better, faster, and much more efficiently. The problem is this. Are you planning on putting this same additive in your car FOREVER??? Losing weight with a supplement that boosts your metabolism is great, but as soon as you stop taking this premium product, guess what happens? All of the weight you have lost, comes screaming back, plus some.

Restrictive plans are just ridiculous. The human body requires 3 forms of caloric intake to survive; protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Each of these macronutrients play their own vital role in the health and wellness of the body. If you cut one of these out, it would be like telling your car, sorry, your don’t need oil anymore. Sure the car will run a little while, but eventually, it will go bad, very bad.

So, back to answering the question. What is the best diet plan?

These questions that I am setting out to answer are some of the most complex things to answer in my world, but I will do my best.

How do you get better fuel mileage out of your car?

Every car will get better fuel economy out of premium gasoline. Sure we all of the expense of 87

octane gas at the pump, and when we make that discounted purchase, we know that we are hurting our fuel mileage. Unfortunately, the body is not much different. If you try to purchase low grade food due to a budget, you are going to struggle with weight loss because your body just will not run as optimally as it could. More importantly, you have to plan on putting the more expensive, premium gas in your car for its entire life. You can’t just put the good stuff in for a while, feel the amazing effects, and then expect those results to remain after you go back to the 87 octane junk.

So, to wrap up the longest analogy of all time.

If you want to lose weight, stop looking for a diet plan. Stop looking for something to help you lose weight in the next 3 weeks.  You have to start looking at what you need to do to get your body running as smoothly and efficiently as it can. You have to fuel it with the best of fuel, and you have to understand that every time you go to a fast food joint, you are just putting watered down poor octane gas in your body and it will have a very negative effect on your goals.

I will repeat this and hopefully make it clearer.

There is no special diet plan that is going to be released to make you miraculously lose weight. The body needs fuel, good fuel, to make it function at its best. You need to plan on providing this premium food for the rest of your life if you want to keep any weight that you lose off for good. Yo-Yo dieting is detrimental to your overall metabolic function and it is a major struggle with so many of us. Overcoming the idealism that there is something wrong with your genetics and ability is an important step to becoming your biggest benefactor for your health.

I wish I had some happy ending to put here with a miracle diet plan, but I don’t. If I did, I would be the wealthiest man in the world, but after all of the hours of research I have done, I can assure you, the only person that will help you lose weight is you. You have to take charge of your health and plan on making this a lifetime life goal.

~Dr. Trent Mozingo

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Why Can’t I Seem to Lose Weight, and Keep IT OFF?!?!?!

Why Can’t I Seem to Lose Weight, and Keep IT OFF?!?!?!

This is a pretty serious question, and as most of the American population can relate to the epidemic of obesity, I feel it is a question that is not only misunderstood, but misguided. Weight loss has become a very profitable industry, reaching $60.5 billion in sales in 2014. With 69% of America’s 20+ year old population being overweight (according to 2011-2012 CDC) and climbing, I would say the industry that has set out to make $BILLIONS$ has some explaining to do.

 So, what do I mean by a question that is misunderstood and misguided?

We have an entire weight loss industry that has put themselves in place to answer this easy enough question, and it seems, they are simply failing to either figure out what people are asking, or failing to provide a relative solution to the problem at hand. People are getting more overweight while using these products. Or even worse, people lose a ton of weight on a special product, and as soon as they stop taking it, BOOM, an additional 15 pounds gets added.

No sustainable weight loss miracle has been created, and yet, the industry keeps their Dr. Oz recommended, green tea, miracle berry, super protein powder, crap on the shelf of every supermarket, gas station, bus stop, and car wash to ensure to the masses that they, in fact, have the secret weapon against the invading fat cells.

At the end of the day, everything that is in our face about weight management is a big misconception to ensure ongoing profits for the industry. I spend a lot of time researching the metabolic functions of the body. I have a clear understanding of the plethora of hormones that are involved in weight loss, and it almost astonishes me that these companies continue to market complete fallacies. To be honest, weight loss is a complex subject, with many different interpretations. Some try to blame it solely on genetics, and others try to blame it on bad luck. With the research I have found, these two excuses just do not work for me.

So, the big question remains… Why can’t I seem to lose weight and keep it off?

Well, I can assure you that lack of effort is not the issue. It seems that everyone that is a client to the weight loss industry has tried absolutely everything. I have seen patients taking a miracle pill that is supposed to shed the fat, and no effort is necessary on their part. The problem persists in the effort given. It seems that we will spend a fortune, put faith in every single cockamamie diet pill, and try so hard to believe that they will work just like it shows on TV or the advertisement. We are putting in so much effort to keep us from actually having to put in effort? Yes, I understand that sounds ridiculous.

Newsflash… If a product or weight loss solution tells you that you do not need to make any lifestyle changes, and their product is the end all beat all, no effort needed to lose weight, or if they tell you that you do not need to change your diet and the product will just curb your appetite. DO NOT BUY THIS GIMMICK. Yes, that product does sound too good to be true, because it is.

EEERRRT. Get back on track here…

I am always asked this question, and I always have the same answer. If you want to know how to lose weight, first you have to understand what causes weight gain.

• 1.       Diet: The quality of the food you eat is the most important factor in regards to weight loss. 80% of the responsibility for weight gain and weight loss has to do with what you put in your mouth. If you are thinking you are eating the right foods because it says it is ZERO CALORIES or FAT FREE, you are probably eating the exact foods that cause weight gain. Processed foods that are loaded with sugars, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and any amount of crazy scientific ingredients are the foods that are causing your weight gain issues.

• 2.       Stress: The hormone cascade involved with elevated emotional stress will only wreak havoc you your metabolic function.  Please understand, stress plays a vital role in how our nervous systems react. If you are in a stressful situation, it will stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, and your flight or fight response kicks in. During this time, the parasympathetic nervous system is shut down, digestion is shut down, and every other metabolic function is shut down to keep your energy focused on running or fighting a stimulus. Which takes me to my next bullet point.

• 3.       Digestion: I understand that most want to blame their weight struggles on a faulty thyroid gland, but I can ensure you, your digestive function is vastly more important, and a sluggish digestive system is possible the root cause of your thyroid woes. If your body is unable to digest food properly, (given that you are actually eating food that is, well, food) you will not be able to break down these foods and assimilate the vital nutrients that the body needs to function. If your body is void of the vital nutrients, it is in stress (see previous bullet). Thyroid, adrenal, cardiovascular, and every other function of the body needs a constant influx of vital nutrients, if your diet, and your digestion system are not providing these building blocks, your weight will suffer.

• 4.       Exercise: Understand that the time spent at the gym, or the calories burned while you are on a treadmill, plays a minimal part on your weight. Exercise is beneficial in the form of a system for increasing muscle mass in the body. The body’s resting metabolic rate (RMR), or the amount of calories you can burn at rest, is directly related to the amount of muscle mass you have. If you want to increase your RMR, you need to increase your muscle mass. This is what exercise if for. If you are not active, your muscle mass will diminish and your RMR will crash.

As I stated, if you truly want to know why you can’t seem to lose weight, first you have to understand what is causing you to gain weight in the first place. This is where I stand behind the comment that if a product tells you that all you have to do is take their miracle pill and change nothing, IT WILL FAIL. Sure you might lose some weight initially, make yourself a true believer, and then it all comes crashing back on. This is because you have failed to remove the one thing that is causing the problem at hand.

To be clear, if you eat processed foods, even just one a day, you gain weight. If you do not exercise at all, and your muscle mass is going down the tubes, you gain weight. If you are going through a stressful time, and you know that you are having a difficult time dealing with it, you will gain weight. If you digestive system is not working properly, you have heartburn, you have intermittent diarrhea or constipation, you gain weight.

I do understand that you know someone who went through a tough time and they couldn’t eat and they seemed to wilt away to nothing. Or, sometimes a digestive system is all mixed up, and people seem to be unable to gain weight. And I also have seen those pesky people that seem to be able to eat ANYTHING THEY WANT, and never gain a pound. Rest assured, this is a major point that we address at New-Start Health Center.

I will not go on and on about the unhealthy relationship between weight and health as we all have seemed to become accustomed to. But to be clear, if you know someone who is not overweight, but they seem to eat sugary product after sugary product, iff you know someone that is too stressed out to eat and they are wilting away, they are not healthy. Sure, they may appear to be at a healthy weight, but their metabolic function is in distress. Each person’s body fat storage function is different. But I have to encourage you not to envy someone who can eat whatever crap they want and not gain weight. Their health is struggling and due to the vanity of America, we still allow them to assume a healthy status. This is dangerous.

So, the first part of answering the primary question is this: You need to understand what causes weight gain if you ever want to stop it.

Fun Analogy Time!!!

Think of weight gain or being overweight as a pink room. You are not interested in the room being pink anymore. In fact, you want to change it to a white room (lose weight). To start this process, first you have to realize some very important factors. How the room became pink? What you have to do to get it to turn white, and finally, what you need to do to keep it from turning pink again? Now, it is easy to understand how that room became pink, right? Someone took the pink paint, put in on a roller, and painted to their hearts content. And you obviously know to turn the room white. You take white paint, put it on a roller, and paint to your hearts content. The biggest disconnect between being overweight and weight loss, and getting a pink room to turn white is the simple step of, what do you need to do to keep it from turning pink again?

The current model we have in place for weight loss is missing this important step. If you have not learned what has made your room turn pink, or made you gain weight, if you do not understand how to keep it from coming back after you lose weight, then you are in a winless battle. Every single diet plan that I have researched, and every single miracle pill that tells you that you do not have to change anything is like painting your wall with white paint and then your friend coming in right behind you and accidently dripping bright red paint into your bucket without you even noticing. You just keep trying and trying to get a pink wall to turn white, but the material you are using, will only leave it the same color. Depending on how many coats you try to apply, you could even end up with a darker shade of pink. (The analogy here is that you will actually end a diet weighing more than what you actually started)

OK, that was fun. Now, let’s clean up this answer, shall we?

So many people are struggling with weight gain, obesity, and overall poor health in America. So many people are searching high and low to figure how why them, why are they overweight, how did they get this unlucky? To be honest, it is on you. It is not all your genetics fault, your doctor’s fault, or even your personal trainer’s fault.

You have to understand that your lifestyle is the predominant cause of weight gain. The food you eat,

the stress you have around you, the amount of exercise you perform, is all on you.

If you want to lose weight, you have to start by addressing the cause, AND GET HELP. You need help from your family, friends, loved ones, coworkers, etc. You need the people around you to understand your goals, and understand what it is going to take for you to get your weight on track. YOU HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED.

So many people go into The New-Start Solution with intentions of losing 50 pounds in 5 days and then they get to go back to eating pizza and Doritos. This is just not a reality. The New-Start Solution is a Lifestyle Change. A rebirth into a healthy style of living. Call it what you want but it is not a diet or miracle system. It is simply the most basic form of eating that makes your body more efficient.

With all of my research, it all comes back to this one simple rule:

If you want to lose weight, and I mean truly lose weight… Look at yourself in the mirror. When you start to think about what you want to change, do not even think about the vanity standpoint of getting into a smaller size of pants. Do not waste your time thinking about what you ideal weight is. Instead, think about what you want to change to get there. 

The Questions That NEED Answers

As a chiropractic physician, owner of a holistic health practice called New-Start Health Center, and avid researcher on the health paradigm in America, I commonly find myself being asked many questions regarding very hot topics in regard to health.

Should I vaccinate my children?

Why does my child keep getting ear infections?

 Is chiropractic care safe or even effective?

How much water should I drink?

What is the best workout plan?

Why is it impossible for me to lose weight?

AND SO ON!!

These are questions that I love to answer, which is why I have made it my life’s focus to work as hard as I can to learn how to answer these questions. I am going to start a blog series based on answering these questions to the best of my ability.

I want you to understand that if any of the answers I have during this series are based on my opinion,

I will clearly state that. Everything else being said will be based on my research into the many woes of the health field. I am very straight to the point, so if you get offended or you disagree, feel free to comment. I am in no way, shape, or form trying to persuade anyone of what they should believe in. All I want for this blog series to be is a source of unbiased information that they can build on.

Each week I will blog about a new question that I am faced with. Maybe a patient asks me or you leave it in a comment. I will do the best I can to answer any questions given, but it will be the interesting topic questions that I choose to write about.

Starting tomorrow, I am going to try and write a blog every Thursday on one or a few of these questions. I am going to make this fun, hopefully entertaining. If you have a question you would like to be answered, feel free to comment or message me privately via Contact Us.

Let’s have fun with this.

Trent Mozingo DC

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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Chiropractic Care in Columbus, Made Simple...

As many of my readers understand, I spend the majority of my time trying to introduce a new spin on many of the health care options that we have at our disposal in the US. As a Board Certified Chiropractor, I spend a lot of time tying to explain the changes that the profession has made. As any profession, technology improves, research tightens, and clinical results are evident. With this innovation to the field of chiropractic, I am proud to say that I stay abreast the most current findings and research to provide the most cutting edge, and effective form of chiropractic care that Columbus, Indiana has to offer. I hope I help you gain some understand of what the therapy at New-Start Health Center entails.

To start this blog series, I want you to think about this first question?

Have you ever wondered what the top reasons that Americans seek medical attention? 
The MayoClinic released a study to figure that exact thing out. 

Here are the following results of the study if you do not wish to read the whole thing...

1. Skin disorders, including cysts, acne and dermatitis.
2. Joint disorders, including osteoarthritis.
3. Back problems.
4. Cholesterol problems.
5. Upper respiratory conditions.
6. Anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression.
7. Chronic neurologic disorders.
8. High blood pressure.
9. Headaches and migraines.
10. Diabetes.

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Two of the top three conditions that drive us into a medical office are joint pains, and back problems. Typical medical practices for these conditions are:

• Steroid medications
• Steroid injections
• Muscle relaxers
• Pain medications
• NSAIDs

The issue I struggle with is discussing the efficacy, or effectiveness of this medical practice. The simple reason we seek medical attention for these conditions is PAIN RELIEF!!

Well, lets be honest, we also want to make sure that it is cost effective to relieve that pain. Spending a fortune on repeated steroid injections is not that appealing.

Well, as I stated before, I stay on top of the research that shows true improvements in treatment options for conditions like back pain,  neck pain, Fibromyalgia, etc.

I understand that most are not interested in reading these long winded studies, so I have just scoured the internet for some facts that will help.

From WEBMD.com Click here to read the entire article

Costs Down, Patient Satisfaction Up With Chiropractic CareCompared with doctor-only health plans, the study found that:

• Chiropractic care cut the cost of treating back pain by 28%.
• Chiropractic care reduced hospitalizations among back pain patients by 41%.
• Chiropractic care reduced back surgeries by 32%.
• Chiropractic care reduced the cost of medical imaging, such as X-rays or MRIs, by 37%

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As you can see, it is not hard to understand how effective and life changing chiropractic care can be. It is just a hidden secret to most.

Evidence-Based Chiropractic is the future of this profession. We treat pain symptoms with more time and effectiveness than traditional forms of chiropractic care. It is an integration within the medical community to stop bantering back and forth about the potential dangers of each. It is about unifying our medical community, making sure the one goal is in order, patient care.

There are many Americans that deal with back and neck pain every single day with little to zero hope of it going away. Maybe they mask the symptoms with medications. Maybe they have had a bad experience with traditional chiropractic. Maybe they have underwent an unsuccessful surgery.

There is hope. A clear understanding of the biomechanical functions within the body, is what all physicians need to have to attack this epidemic of back and neck pain.

After all, it is 2 of the top 3 reasons we seek medical attention.

To make it simple, Chiropractic Can Help. It has been proven to do so. 

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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Doctors that listen, Care

symp·tom

n.

A subjective indication of a disorder or disease, such as pain, nausea, or weakness

The current medical system has set itself up in a way to minimize the amount of time a physician spends with a patient. It is a simple concept. Too many sick people, too many cases, and not enough time for doctors to cover them all.

Unfortunately this has led our health status into a melting pot of undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, over tested, under analyzed patients. So many physicians do not have time to spend taking a thorough history, so instead of listening to the concerns and complaints of a patient, and going through all of the symptomatology that the patient presents with, it is common to order an excessive amount of unnecessary tests to come up with a diagnosis.

While attending Palmer College of Chiropractic, I learned the most valuable thing about being a physician.

80% of our diagnosis should come from the history of the patient. We need to speak to patients for as long as it takes to come up with a very concise decision that supports the indication to do additional testing.

If you look back at the top of this article, you will see that the very definition of a symptom explains it perfectly. Symptoms are a SUBJECTIVE indication of a disease or dysfunction. Listen to what the patient is saying, but more importantly understand how the body works so you can utilize the information that is given during a thorough history.

The process of coming up with an accurate diagnosis of a patient starts with a physician’s understanding of the human body. There is absolutely no cookie cutter flow chart to be followed that will work on every single patient. Certain dysfunctions can be expressed differently in every patient, but you have to dig deeper.

When a patient discusses a symptom, it is just the tip of the iceberg. You have to know everything about that symptom. You have to know which questions to ask and how to interpret the responses. 

Lets go through a scenario:

A 39 year old female patient presents with mid to low back pain.

Symptom: back pain.

Some physicians will immediately lean toward an X-ray to rule out things. Some might automatically prescribe a muscle relaxer. NSAIDs are always suggested. Maybe ice, massage, or even electric stimulation.

Chiropractors are famous for immediately linking to a spinal subluxation and an adjustment will fix it up.

What questions should be asked?

Location of the back pain? How long has it been going on? Does anything relieve it or make it worse? All physicians understand the whole OPPQRST bit, but do they use it?

Is a kidney exam indicated? Gall Bladder stones? Lumbar disc derangement? Did they fall and break a rib? Diverticulitis?

The point I am trying to make is this; a symptom as simple as back pain can have many different diagnoses. There is any amount of testing that you can order to search for the correct condition. The true physician will minimize the cost to a patient by ruling out some of the differential diagnoses, and minimize any testing required.

Pain is definitely the most common symptom that encourages a person to seek medical attention. Low back pain being number one in the US.

The symptom of pain seems to be the one hardest to deal with, the hardest for a patient to overlook, but there are so many more symptoms that must be analyzed by a physician that is seeking a true diagnosis. Symptoms like, restless at night, weight gain, low body temperature, elevated pulse, frequent urination, and so many more are how the body expresses its state of health.

The body will tell a physician a story. They just have to listen to it. More importantly, they must not look at any patient with a predetermined mentality of what is wrong. This is how a misdiagnosis happens.

The most common complaint that I hear from patients is that their primary physician doesn’t really listen to them.

Has this ever happened to you?

It is probably not the physician’s fault. They work in a health system with too many sick people, and unfortunately, testing is profitable and major hospitals are a business. All business’s like making profit, so the more testing they order, the more money they make.

I like to be a cost effective physician, but even more so, I like to be accurate. It is not hard to come up with a diagnosis if you just listen, and ask the right questions. I order tests when needed. I order imaging if necessary. They are NEVER my primary source of coming up with a diagnosis. I run at about a 90% rate of using diagnostic testing to confirm what I already determined from a thorough history. I only test if my safe, non-invasive treatment plan is not providing the results I think the patient deserves. Physicians have to start being fair, and not going beyond their expertise.

The New-Start Difference

We analyze symptoms, or objective findings to conclude a status of health. The system is designed to save money on unnecessary testing for a condition that is indicated with simple symptoms. At New-Start, all we need to know is exactly how you feel. What symptoms you are suffering from. We use this to give you a very thorough description of your health status.

If you are interested in learning more about how New-Start is changing the health care system, feel free to schedule a FREE consultation with me. It could change your life.

If you want to know how healthy you are, fill this entire quiz out as accurate as you can, and The New-Start Solution will give you a very concise report on where your health stands.

~Dr. Moz

If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

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5 ways to know if you are a Chiropractic Patient or Chiropractor’s Paycheck.

5 ways to know if you are a Chiropractic Patient or Chiropractor’s Paycheck.

I am a board certified Chiropractor, and I am taking a stand against all of the sham doctors out there that continue to give the chiropractic profession a bad name.  I get so tired of hearing writers on behalf of the AMA bash this life changing profession because the majority of chiropractors are practicing a style of care that is outdated. I am afflicted with a very scientific, left handed, analytical brain that will not let me believe in wish-washy crystals and body energy based therapies, nevertheless, expect them to work. I focus on scientific, reproducible, evidence-based, and clinically proven methods of patient care to ensure that each patient that walks in my door will get quality care that they can depend on. Each patient that enters New-Start Health Center will know their exact pain generator, they will know how long my treatment plan is supposed to take to alleviate their pain, and they will know that I am not going to drag them through an exhaustive examination, expose them to unnecessary radiation, or give them a 6 month, 40 visit, treatment plan that “might” help.

(This is an actor, not a patient)

I love my profession, and I love what it can do for patients, but since the birth of chiropractic about 110 years ago, things have changed. DD Palmer made the first chiropractic adjustment when he adjusted a deaf janitor named Harvey and his hearing came back. Unfortunately, in the majority of the chiropractic curriculum, these are the stories that you hear. They teach the students how chiropractic adjustments are the only therapy in the world that can put the spine back in alignment and turn the power of the nervous system back on to restore health. I remember stories of how adjusting the right ankle of someone with hemorrhoids has made them disappear. Adjustment of a patient’s big toe made his back pain go away. We were trained that each spinal level has a set of nerves that innervate each organ, tissue, and cell in the body, and if they spine is out of alignment, the body cannot heal itself. All of these concepts were so inspiring to hear, I, Me, could heal the entire world with any condition, with my hands.

Unfortunately, science happens, and the medical world demands you to prove that you can treat a condition. Considering the facts, you will not find any clinical studies that prove that any bone is displaced in the body, and that bone puts pressure on spinal nerves. You will not find reproducible evidence that adjusting the first vertebrate of anyone will lower blood pressure, or adjusting the lumbar spine in a child will cure bed wetting.  You can find case studies and hear stories of these miraculous events, but again, they are not scientifically proven, or even suggestible that they will work. It is only a trial and error method. A treat and hope plan. NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

Where you will find scientific evidence, case studies, control trials, and even validity within the medical world is this. The chiropractic profession is proven, time and again, to be more effective at treating acute back pain and keeping it at bay, than medication and surgery.  That is what the profession has settled into. We are PAIN MANAGEMENT doctors. The adjustment is effective at blocking the pain receptors. We have a superior education to any other primary care physicians in the realm of the musculoskeletal system. Considering low back pain is one of the top reasons Americans seek out medical relief, I would say we have settled into a pretty good niche. Chiropractic physicians need to understand that we are primary care physicians, we are capable of diagnosing any major condition, but we are not treating these conditions with adjustments, there just isn’t enough proof to suggest it.

You should NEVER hear at a doctor’s office, “this might work” or “this has worked before.”  If you are wondering why you have been to your chiropractor for so many visits and they never seem to address what is really going wrong with you, then there is a good chance you have become a Chiropractor’s Paycheck instead of a Chiropractic Patient. 

 Here are some quick tips to analyze if you have been seeing a sham doc instead of a real doc.

1.       X-ray every patient on their first visit.   

 The traditional chiropractor loves the use of x-rays to tell patients things that will scare them, and ensure each of them that ongoing care for the rest of their life is necessary.  Chiropractors love showing the patient the film, too. This is where a trained eye can point at anything and tell a layman person whatever they want, and the patient has no choice but to believe them because odds are, they have no clue what the doctor is pointing at.  The basic concept I want you to take from this is that you cannot see any pain generators on an x-ray that were not determined from the history and physical examination.

If you present to a chiropractor with a new ache or pain and you haven’t suffered from any trauma, make sure you ask if an x-ray is necessary and ask the doctor what they are looking for with this film. If they say something like, “we are looking to see how healthy your spine is,” run. You should not expose yourself to the radiation if you can avoid it.
The common findings on x-rays that I am sure you have heard are:

  Reduced curvature in your neck
I am sorry, but there is no evidence that displays how a reduced curvature in your neck will lead to a pain syndrome. Better idea, why not just do a physical examination and check the patient’s posture. I can bet that if a patient has a forward head translation in regard to their shoulders, they have a reduced lordotic curvature in their neck.

 Degenerative Disc Disease
“We cannot cure this in your spine, but we can make sure it doesn’t get worse.” I can understand why every chiropractor wants to tell a patient they have this. It is SCARY. The irony is, general osteoarthritis, Degenerative Disc, Degenerative Joint Disease, or whatever you want to call it, is NOT an inflammatory process within the body. This means, there is no pain pattern that is clinically reproducible with this diagnosis.

2.       They diagnose you with a SUBLUXATION.
The principles of chiropractic are based around this concept. A bone in the spine gets out of alignment and it puts pressure on the vital nerves coming from your central nervous system, reducing nerve flow to the peripheral tissue.
 
As I stated before, it all sounds good and believable, but scientific evidence says otherwise.
If you even hear your chiropractor use the term subluxation in his report of findings, RUN.

3.       40+ visits treatment plan
Have you ever heard your friend say, “Once you go to a chiropractor you have to go forever!”
This is my favorite. The profession is always thinking of ways to maintain patient compliance. So they have designed a generic treatment plan that will cure your ails.

3 visits/week for 3 months, then 2 visits/week for 1 month, then 1 visit per week for 6 months, then 1 visit/month FOREVER.

News Flash, if a chiropractor does not make a considerable difference in your symptoms in 3 weeks, chances are, they, WON’T.

4.       Same treatment for every conditionI have shadowed some doctors in my educational pursuit. I kept questioning whether I was crazy or the doc was. It did not seem to matter what the patient was coming to see that doctor for. Headaches, back pain, neck pain, dizziness, vertigo, digestive issues, bed wetting, pregnancy, You NAME IT, the doctor always did the exact same treatment. They would start face up, get their neck adjusted, on both sides, then rolled up into a ball and their mid back adjusted in about 3 places, then the doc would roll them on each side and adjust both of their hips or low backs, (pretty much whatever they could get to make the popping sound), then EVERY patient went to the next room where they would either get electric stimulation and heat or the traction table.

Either way, it did not matter what the patient was suffering from, they all got the exact same treatment protocol.

Rule of thumb, if you do not find your treatment plan to be focused on your area of complaint, or if you do not find your treatment options progressing through the treatment plan, RUN.

Of course, we all like the feel goods that go with a traction table or a heating pad, but you are not at the chiropractor for this fluff, you are there to get treated.

5.       “Wellness” Center
I constantly ask my colleagues that name their business, Bob’s Chiropractic and Wellness or Smith’s Chiropractic Wellness Center, “How exactly are you promoting “Wellness”?” The responses are always entertaining. Some discuss the obvious chiropractic mentality, “Alleviating the subluxation in the spine will allow the body’s natural healing powers to make every cell in the body well and happy.” Some reply with a better answer, “We always promote a healthy lifestyle in the office.”

Wellness can only come from one thing, good health. Do not let any chiropractor tell you that your spine is out of alignment and this is why you are getting the flu. Wellness comes from a low stress life that encompasses a healthy diet and some moderate levels of physical activity. If you think that you are going to have “Wellness” by getting adjusted after eating a McDonald’s Big Mac and fries, sorry, you are sadly mistaken.
 

There is always a principle that I follow, To Each Their Own. Maybe you have experienced all of the five things and think that I am crazy for saying it. You might love the way you can go into your chiropractor’s office and get treated the same way you always have. Maybe you get great relief from this style of therapy, and maybe you have been one of those miracle cases that demonstrate that a chiropractic adjustment can do more than just block pain.

I am just trying to help the stability in my profession by explaining the true evidence behind our profession. Chiropractic was created by a genius of a man that was 70 years ahead of his time. He was designing adjustment protocols and treatment strategies long before they were even understood. But this is now 2014, we have the Internet, and anyone in the world that googles “subluxation” is probably going to think that their chiropractor is out of his mind.

If you have heard your doctor say, “you are suffering from a subluxation, and it is putting pressure on your nerves, keeping your body from homeostasis,” RUN.

It is scientific research and evidence that shows how effective a chiropractic treatment plan can be for managing any musculoskeletal pain syndromes. If you are seeking relief from any aches or pains, be sure to find a chiropractor that is geared to take on the case. Make sure you get into an office that is primarily working to get your out of pain so you can better enjoy your daily life, and stop wasting money on the flying 7 adjustment and some electric stimulation.

Dr. Moz


If you are tired of seeking pain relief with no results, call (812) 799-0668 TODAY and schedule a FREE CONSULTATION, and let's get you back to the PAIN-FREE Life you are missing.

Visit www.NewStartHealthCenter.com TODAY!