ACRB Certification
Dr. Haydu has recently passed his 2016 recertification exam for his board certification from the American Chiropractic Rehab Board. Dr. Haydu is one of less than 200 chiropractors nationwide that holds this credential. Dr. Cohen currently holds board certification in chiropractic orthopedics which makes our clinic the only in NEPA with two doctors holding board certification.
Chiropractic and Cost Efficiency
The Journal of Manual and Physiologic Therapeutics (JMPT) has published a study showing that the medical costs for the treatment of back pain, when the initial contact for the complaint was a chiropractor, was 40% lower thatn the costs for standard medical care for the same diagnosis. The study examined over 85,000 individuals with back pain over a 2 year period that were insured by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee. This study joins a growing body of evidence supporting the cost effectiveness of chiropractic care in an era of runaway health care costs. It also represents the treatment effectiveness of chiropractic technique, which often allows a patient to avoid prescription drugs and surgery.
Clinic Technique - Graston
Dr.'s Cohen and Haydu are certified in Graston Technique (GT). GT is an instrument assisted soft tissue management system for the treatment of acute and chronic muscle, tendon, or ligament injuries. GT has been shown in the clinical literature to be a safe and effective treatment for injury recovery and rehabilitation. Graston has become popular worldwide and is used by more than 180 professional and amateur sports organizations. Please visit www.grastontechnique.com for more information.
Exercise and Mental Health
A recent study at Duke University demonstrated that 30 minutes of brisk exercise is as effective as medication for the relief of depression, and, keeps depression symptoms from returning. Before prescribing expensive and potentially dangerous medication, physicians should first recommend exercise and also check for low blood sugar and hypothyroidism, two conditions that can produce depressive symptoms. The Archives of General Psychiatry states that more than 10 percent of Americans now take antidepressants, double the rate since 1996. Interestingly, more than half of those prescriptions are for problems other than depression including back pain, nerve pain, fatigue, or sleep difficulties; symptoms that have been proven to be effectively treated with exercise!