i want to know how a chiropracter or doctor can determine if a patient is being honest about their symptoms?
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Sometimes spotting fraud is easy, sometimes it is hard.  However, usually there is not outright fraud.  Sometimes people's reactions to pain can be affected by outside factors such as being off work or possible litigation secondary to an injury.  These reactions to pain are not outright fraud.\n\nAnyways, we look for coordination between subjective complaints and objective testing.  There are also specific tests to try to determine malingering.  Overall, it is tough but, with practice, any doctor will "know it when they see it".
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There is no absolute way to ascertain if anybody is telling you the truth. You have to go with your gut feeling. Always accept what the patient is telling you without judgement. You will not only be using your questions and answers for your assessment, but also your assessment skills of appearance, labs, auscultation, and treatment for withdrawls. You will need to look at the whole picture. This will tell you if the patient is telling you the truth.\nSometimes it is helpful to talk to other nurses who have treated the patient before. They have a good grasp on what the patient has been through and should be able to give you some helpful info.
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Chances are if your doctor can't tell you what is wrong, it may not be on the internet, or, most likely, it will give you a false diagnosis.  My suggestion is to keep getting other opinions because different doctors will think differently about symptoms and it will probably require thinking outside the box on the part of the doctor to put two and two together.
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The myo facial refers to muscles of the face.  Cervical refers to neck problems.  I would advise that you see a doctor to confirm this diagnosis unless you were already referred to the chiropractor for a condition associated with these problems.  Even if your chiropractor is right, a health insurance company may consider future claims void if you begin to get treatment from a chiropractor for a specific condition without physician referal.
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Chiropractor...I used to suffer frequently, but when I started seeing the Chiro..I hardly ever have one anymore...also he had a massage therapist come in and show me a couple of simple massage techniques that do wonders ....
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I have had good results with a chiropractor for neck and back pain. Many people have had great success but you will find many have not and would tell you never. You need to ask around to people you know and find a good one in your area. Like any profession some do not know what they are doing. A good one should require a number of X-rays to make sure they understand your injury/problem. Work on your posture when you play your video games start sitting up properly and in a good chair - I know how kids sit for hours in a slump playing these games, so over years you may have caused this, plus you said that you were in an accident years back. good luck I know how you feel!
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If an MD clears you for immediate danger, go see a chiropractor. You may have subluxated spinal joints that block nerve pathways that will wreak havoc with your body.
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You could try some accupunture sessions. My nursing instructor used them for chronic back pain and she said after about 4 treatments she hasn't ever had the pain again. You should also see a chiropractor to check for any nerve compression, bugling discs, hernia, etc.
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Find a good chiropractor. It may take a bit of looking, but a good one will get you back in alignment. Your body is trying to get your back and neck into alignment. The stretching of the muscles and the pinching of nerves between the vertebre is the pain you are feeling
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The primary focus of chiropractic care centers around the spine.  It is felt that most painful problems ultimately lead back to the spine.  Chiropractors usually adjust the spine to correct positional faults.  While they do treat other areas of the body, such as correcting foot alignment, their main focus is the spine, but also have a very strong backround in nutritional assessment.  They primarily use a hands on approach, but also occasionally use treatment modalities such as electrical stimulation, ultrasound, etc.  Chiropractic physicians earn a "D.C." or a doctor of chiropratic.  \n\nOsteopathic physicains also have a basis in manipulative therapy and can also perform adjustments.  Yet, they also have a backround in medicine and can prescibe medications and work in hospitals. They treat a variety of medical and orthopedic conditions.   An osteopathic physican is denoted by "D.O." or doctor of osteopathy.   \n\nA physical therapist  is one of the allied health professions whose primary focus is on the recovery of function.  It may be to help restore movement or reduce pain.  This may be done by a variety of techniques such as strengthening, stretching, modalities, joint mobilization, massage, neuromuscular facilitation, etc.  PT's treat people with a variety of condtions such as neurological problems (like MS, Parkinson's disease), orthopedic problems (back pain, after shoulder surgery, etc.), wound care, lymphedema management, etc.  A physical therapist cannot prescribe medication, yet this is not their focus.  In some states, one cannot see a physical therapist without first having an order from a physician, but most states have some degree of direct access.  At this time, all new graduates of physical therapy have a masters or DPT (doctorate of physical therapy).
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That is total bull.  Visit your primary care physician and have a thorough evaluation done, if he/she just gives you meds and you want more than that then ask for a referral to see a physiatrist if you have chronic symptoms. A referral to a physical therapist may also be an excellent option for you based upon the physician's findings.  Also, tell your physician which chiropractor you visited and what they told you was wrong, that way the physician is aware of this quack. \n\nI will say this, if you decide to see a therapist, do not be afraid to call around and ask to speak to the therapist to see if they indeed specialize in spinal care. Some do and some don't, it is a much wider field than most realize. Most physical therapists that do specialize in spinal care are highly educated in the dynamics of the spine and also do perform manipulation of your joints when warranted but they also have many other options for advanced treatment. \n\nNone the less, I do not recommend corporate facilities such as HealthSouth, NovaCare or Banyan Tree as most of these facilities do not allow the therapist to have control over thier own schedules and you may not be able to see the same therapist from visit to visit, which in my opinion is poor medical care care driven by corporate interest. \n\nChiropractic care, if you can call it that, what a sham! There may be a few good chiros out there who want to do a good job and may actually practice ethically but the profession is litered with so many quacks like the one you visited that finding a good chiro is about as likely as winning the lottery or being struck by lightening.\n\nWhat the general population doesn't seem to realize anymore is that chiropractors are traditionally not trained in modern medicine nor are they a branch of modern medicine. They do NOT go to medical school. Chiropractors are trained in chiropractic which is an unfounded, unscientific model of quasihealthcare usually taught in colleges that only teach chiropractic. There is not a single chiropractic school in the states that is found in a university system. They are usually seperate entities from all other schools because they teach their own form of science and health which is NOT recognised in the mainstream. They are NOT another type of medical doctor that just decided to go into chiropractic care versus say, orthopedics or neurology. \n\nIf you want to know the truth behind chiropractic care and chiropractors, then check out the following links. Really check out these sites too as many of the articles are written by chiropractors that have renounced their own profession.\n\nhttp://www.ncahf.org/pp/chirop.html...\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01general/chiro...\nhttp://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsid....\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01general/skept...\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/06dd/chirovet.h...\n\nAlso, chiropractors state that research has justified their techniques, check out the following;\n\nDuring the past few years, two reports about the treatment of low-back pain have placed chiropractic in a favorable light. One, issued by the RAND Corporation, concluded that spinal manipulation was appropriate for some cases of low-back pain. The other, produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), judged manipulation useful for controlling symptoms while awaiting the spontaneous recovery that occurs within a month in most patients with low-back problems.\nAlthough chiropractors have promoted these reports as endorsements of chiropractic, they are not. They merely support the use of manipulation in carefully selected patients. Only a few of the research studies on which their conclusions were based involved manipulation by chiropractors; most were done by medical doctors and physical therapists whose practices are not identical to those of chiropractors. Most chiropractors manipulate the vast majority of patients
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I had a knotted up nerve in my neck one time that was driving me insane.  The doctor gave  me some pain killer but that just made the room spin, so finally out of desperation I went to a chiropractor for the frist time in my life.  He crunched my back in several places and then practically twisted my head off from both sides.  The amazing thing was that within minutes I could feel a noticable difference and after going back a couple of more times it fixed it completely, something pain killers cannot do.
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MY opinion is:  some are legitimate and some are just out to rip you off for your money - do background checks on some of the clinics your thinking of going to, make sure that they are indeed licensed doctors that specialize in pain management.
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Hi Becka.  Chiropractors are trained and licensed to diagnose and treat human ailments without the use of prescription drugs or incisive surgery.  Chiropractors define themselves by what they choose NOT to prescribe (prescription drugs and incisive surgery).  Any 'recommendation' for therapy, treatment, or 'course of action' is a 'prescription'.  Every Chiropractor prescribes (recommends) some type of treatment or course of action for patients.  So, yes, Chiropractors can prescribe exercise regimens.\n\nI am a retired Chiropractor.  Best wishes.
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Ask them if they have been eating right or if they feel o.k.
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Have you ever considered chiropractic?  My wife suffered a pretty severe neck injury in a car accident and feels that the treatment she received was nothing but good.\n\nIt's non-invasive and covered by most health insurance plans.  I have NEVER had anyone I've ever known who has gone to a chiropractor and had anything negative to say.
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chiropractic:\nit means system of healing: a medical system based on the theory that disease and disorders are caused by a misalignment of the bones, especially in the spine, that obstructs proper nerve functions