It's Sunday evening and you're looking up your primary care doctor's phone number because you need some help. You tweaked your back doing some landscaping on Saturday afternoon and it has been getting worse and worse as the hours tick by. Monday morning rolls around and you call your doctor to see if they have any appointments available. They're booked solid and the next available appointment is 2 weeks out, but you need some help and answers NOW or you might not be able to work this week due to the pain. You decide to go to urgent care and they prescribe you some powerful muscle relaxers or pain medication (that you don't really want to take anyway) and refer you to physical therapy, which starts in 1 week.
To summarize, you are now taking medication that can have some pretty serious side effects, waiting a full week for you PT appointment, and you had to pay out of pocket for an urgent care visit. While this route can work, and PTs are just as qualified as chiropractors to treat musculoskeletal issues, it can seriously delay your care! Laws are changing, and some PTs are becoming direct access providers, but a lot of times you have to jump through a few steps to get a referral. If only there was a more efficient route to care...
While the process I mentioned above is fairly common, and it can work, why wouldn't you want quicker access to care and relief?? When you schedule an appointment with a REPUTABLE chiropractor, you will get a thorough physical EXAM, a DIAGNOSIS and a CONCISE TREATMENT PLAN to help you with your problem. If a referral is necessary, a chiropractor can point you in the right direction.
In the past year, I've had multiple patients who have an appointment booked with their medical doctor but also schedule a visit with me for quick relief. So far, all of those patients were able to cancel their medical doctor appointment due to the care they received at Rose City Sport and Spine. I'm sure as the years pass, I'll have cases where I can't help patients and they'll still need that visit to the primary care doc, but for now I'll enjoy the little victories. My goal is to get you the results you want so that you can get back out there and enjoy life!
If you've never been to a chiropractor, I would encourage you to consider chiropractic care when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal complaints! If you have questions, please ask me! There are many misconceptions around the chiropractic field, but I'm always doing my best to de-bunk myths that you may have heard!
Feel free to contact the office with any questions by emailing rosecitysportandspine@gmail.com or calling 717-228-8536
Take care Lancaster!
-Dr. Henly